Serving Whitman County since 1877
Serving Whitman County since 1877
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DUSTY Suzy McNeilly traveled to Fredricksburg, Va., to spend a couple of days with her son Jake. They spent time visiting hanging out in bookstores, a favorite mom/son outing. Jake treated his mother to dessert at the Melting Pot. McNeilly traveled on to Camp LeJeune, N.C., to help her daughter Christina’s family move to their new posting. It was Suzy’s first meeting with her newest grandson, two and a half month old Aidan. Suzy’s oldest daughter, Missy, and her family came to assist with the move. Grandma Suzy’s job was to entertain the thr...
Dusty Last week Wednesday, Dusty BB Club met in the parish hall of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in LaCrosse to make baby blankets for the free maternity clinic at Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. Seven members, plus guests Alice and Margaret Mackleit, made approximately 50 blankets. Hostesses were Diane Monson and Janell Guske. The next meeting will be March 9 with hostesses Jane Aune and Suzy McNeilly. Ann Hogue will present a program on Hooked Rugs. Roll call will be “Come as you are.” Steve and Dianne Appel went to Estill Springs, Tenn., to...
Dusty Mark and Kathy Vogler spent Christmas in Germany with their daughter, Anna, and son-in-law, Chad Assareh, who are currently residing in Ulm. They were joined by son Henry Vogler and Cari Thompson. The group traveled through the Ulm-Munich area, touring castles, cathedrals and eating all manner of wonderful food. Following Christmas, the group took the high-speed train to Paris where they enjoyed the Louvre, the Eiffel Tower, numerous museums, cathedrals, monuments and all manner of wonderful foods. They saw the new year in with Parisian... Full story
Dusty Carol Kyllo spent Christmas in Spokane with her daughter’s family, Tami and Wayne Haas and children. They were joined on Christmas Day by her son and daughter-in-law, Tim and Penny Kyllo. She spent New Year’s Eve at a party at the home of Penny and Jerry Gilchrist. Larry and Di Brink were New Year’s Eve dinner guests of Don and Carol Keeney, LaCrosse, along with the Keeney’s eldest son’s family, Jeff, Sharee and Wyatt Keeney from Idaho. The Brinks were at the Lucky and Joan Myrick home New Year’s Day. Kurt and Jill Reddig and Savannah of...
Dusty Lindsay Scaggs, Denver, visited his mother, Lorraine Broeckel Scaggs, from Thursday to Tuesday. Vicki Broeckel and Sharry O’Hearne attended funeral services for Helen Slonaker at the Moscow Church of the Nazarene last Wednesday. David and Phyllis Stueckle were among 46 descendents of Gunder and Betty Aune who attended their annual Christmas Eve get-together at Selbu Lutheran Church. Drew Erickson, Seattle, arrived at the home of his parents, Norm and Gloria Erickson on Thursday to spend Christmas with them. They were joined on C...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager hosted an early Christmas celebration for their family this weekend. Arriving Friday were Gaylene and Don Manning and children, Valleyford, and Kyle and Ann Sager, Spokane. Arriving Saturday were Blake and Marcy Sager and children, Colfax. Christmas dinner was Saturday, Kyle and Ann stayed through Sunday. The rest returned to their homes Saturday evening. Vicki Broeckel and Sharry O’Hearne shared Christmas dinner with their mother, Berniece Krom, at the Whitman Health and Rehab Nursing Home in Colfax S...
DUSTY Dusty BB Club will host a community Christmas potluck and party at the Wilcox Grange at 6 p.m. Friday, Dec. 17. Santa and Rudolph will make a visit. Participants are asked to bring a hot dish, salad or dessert and marked gifts for Santa to give to children. B.B. Club’s December meeting will be at 9:30 a.m. at the Wilcox Grange Thursday, Dec. 16, to decorate for the Christmas party. Roll call will be to bring an old cookbook and its story. Hostesses are Rita Ackerman and Karen Broeckel. Carol Kyllo attended the baptism of Brianna Nicole Ca...
Dusty Karen Broeckel joined Cliff and Jeanette Nolan, Greg, Gwen and Jason Nolan and Ken, Pam and Zach Beasley in attending the Touchet Valley Arts Council Production of “The Music Man” at the Dayton Theater Friday evening. Austin Beasley played the part of a traveling salesman. Word has been received of the death of Napavine resident Dr. Richard Battin, husband of Judy Repp Battin. He is survived by his wife, children Apryl, Robyn, Jana Claxton and family and Rick. Local relatives are Connie and Warren Horton, Jon and Tina Ochs and Randy Rep... Full story
Dusty Ed, Joan and Amber Broeckel met their daughter/sister Jen in Yakima where they celebrated Thanksgiving. They returned to their home Friday. Sunday, Jen returned to Seattle and Amber to Boise State. Geraldine and Stetson Steiger were both home for Thanksgiving with their parents, Duane and Tarri Steiger. Thanksgiving guests of Larry and Di Brink included Lucky, Joan and Rob Myrick, Kevin, Amber, Ashley, Kloey and Ellie Brink and Mike Stine. Sunday, John Brink and Brandy Amsden stopped in for a visit. Larry revisited childhood memories by... Full story
Dusty Blake Heaton is out of the Intensive Care Unit at Sacred Heart. He has been moved to the fifth floor where he receives dialysis treatments three times a week. Norm and Gloria Erickson welcomed new granddaughter Chloe Janelle Clark born Nov. 21, to Ronda and Brian Clark, El Mirage, Ariz. This is their first child. She weighed six pounds, one ounce. Steve and Dianne Appel attended the Washington Farm Bureau state convention in Yakima Nov. 14 - 18. Steve was re-elected president, and Dianne was a delegate for the Whitman County Farm Bureau.... Full story
Dusty Art and Colene Sager and Jerry and Nina Richardson of Moses Lake drove to Okanagan and Omak to check out motels, restaurants and local points of interest for the Tri-state Flying Farmers convention they are hosting next May. Blake Heaton is in the intensive care unit of Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane as a result of complications following recent back surgery. The most recent report indicates he has made some improvement. Dick and Helen Appel recently attended the Washington State Sheep Producers convention in Moses Lake. Helen was... Full story
Dusty The Flying Farmers monthly meeting was at The Parsonage Saturday. Twenty-two members attended the event. Dick and Suzy McNeilly welcomed their third grandson Oct. 22. He was born in Pomona, New Jersey, to Christina and Jason Cain. Aidan William Cain weighed in at seven pounds, 12 ounces and joins big brother, Mason. Kim and Cindy Pitts and Norm Bafus were in Meridian, Idaho, over the weekend to help granddaughter/great-granddaughter Willa Hammons celebrate her first birthday. David and Phyllis Stueckle attended the Whitman County Farm...
Dusty Jon and Li Ochs returned from Las Vegas last week where they attended a conference on electrical reliability. Some of the local children enjoyed Halloween activities Sunday. Mashayla, in an Indian costume, and Quincy, in a bull rider costume, Morris participated in the activities at the LaCrosse fire station. The Blankenship children went trick-or-treating at Hill Ray. Kim and Cindy Pitts babysat their grandchildren in Spokane Saturday evening. They returned home Sunday. David and Phyllis Stueckle attended the chili feed in LaCrosse...
Dusty Dianne Appel accompanied Colfax FFA delegates to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis from Oct. 19-23. They spent Oct. 17-18 in Chicago before traveling on to the convention. They attended a performance of “The Lion King” and toured museums. Garret Link has moved into the house owned by Marc and Judy Watson. Link is renting the property while the Watsons are living and working near Cheney. Larry, Di and John Brink and Brandi Amstad went to Lilac Lanes in Spokane Sunday to watch Mike Stine and Norma Gibson bowl in a tournament. Mik...
Dusty Jon and Li Ochs spent last week visiting their son Ian in Austin, Texas, where he lives and works They also visited some old friends from Palouse who now live there. They attended the festival Austin City Limits where the daughter of friends performed with the band M.I.A. A belly dancer, she performed in a Burka to protest the oppression of women. They also heard some of their favorite music groups, including the Eagles. Al and Goldie Foss spent last week visiting with her sister, Gloria and Norm Erickson. They returned to their home in... Full story
Dusty Saturday, Art and Colene Sager and Ed Broeckel flew to Airway Heights for a Flying Farmers meeting at the weather bureau. They toured the facility and after the meeting, had lunch at The Rusty Moose Restaurant. Sunday, the Sagers helped their grandson, Kenneth, celebrate his sixth birthday at the home of his family, Blake, Marcy and Jullene Sager, in Colfax. Last weekend, Mike and Betty Herndon from Hermiston, Ore., spent Sunday visiting at the home of Lucky and Joan Myrick. They had lost touch with each other for 40 years until Joan...
Dusty Recently, Connie Horton, accompanied by her niece, Apryl Battin of Seattle, traveled to Dallas, Texas, for the SMU-WSU football game. They were joined by Renee Horton and daughter Devin, Corpus Christi, Texas. While in Dallas, they toured the Dallas Cowboys’ football stadium and celebrated Devin’s 13th birthday. Sunday dinner guests at the home of Larry and Di Brink were Ed and Brenda Getz of Colfax and John Brink and Brandy Ahmstad of Colton. Saturday, Linda Hennigar was in Kennewick to watch her grandson, Wesley Banks, play in a foo...
Dusty Steve and Becky Camp hosted their annual Powered Parachute Rally/Fly-In this weekend. There were 32 machines this year. Some participants started showing up last Tuesday. Saturday night was a group potluck which also celebrated Becky’s 50th birthday. With the inclusion of some of Becky’s family, 65 to 70 people attended dinner. The event went through Sunday with a few going out for a last fly on Monday. Participants came from Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Norm and Gloria Erickson spent the weekend on the western side of the sta... Full story
Dusty Locals who attended the Onecho Bible Church family camp at Silver Lake included Norm and Gloria Erickson and grandsons Darin and Derek Repp, Darrel and LaRae Claassen and Wes and Jen Claassen and family. Linda Hennigar watched some of her great-nieces and nephews show animals at the Latah County Fair at Moscow Thursday. They are the grandchildren of Jack and Marilyn Hennigar of Harvard. David and Phyllis Stueckle had breakfast at the Teapot Cafe in LaCrosse Saturday morning with Phyllis’s brother and sister-in-law, Norm and Barb Aune o... Full story
Dusty Guenter and Brigitte Scherwinski, Mountain Home, Idaho, spent the weekend with their daughter and family, Angela and Brian Broeckel. They attended their grandson Graham’s LaCrosse-Washtucna football game and the Palouse Empire Fair. The musical group Cross Country— Linda Hennigar, Bob Davidson and Jerry Martin—will perform Saturday afternoon, Sept. 18, Main Street in St. John during their business promotional days. Kim and Cindy Pitts were in Boise this weekend to visit with their daughter’s family, Ryan, Jen, Kellen, Becket and Willa H... Full story
Dusty Dusty B.B. Club members are some of the special invited guests at the dedication of the Jones Schoolhouse on the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds today. Barb and Bruce Wollstein, Lacey, recently treated Dick and Helen Appel to a Mariners/Minnesota ball game in Seattle to celebrate Dick’s birthday. Dick and Helen went on to Brush Prairie to visit with their daughter Deb Stavig. Her husband Bob was in China on a business trip. Bob and Judy Records of Newberg, Ore., brother and sister-in-law of Colene Sager, spent the weekend with Art and C...
Dusty Shirley Eggers was guest of honor at an outdoor barbecue to celebrate her 87th birthday last Saturday. Those present included daughter Patsy and Mike Kromm, Quincy; son Terry and Janet Eggers, Sandpoint; Steve Kromm, Colfax and Fran Jones, Dusty. Golden Elberta peaches are ripening a little later than usual this year. Call Shirley Eggers (Stacy Eggers in the Colfax phone book) before coming to Warm Springs Ranch to pick. David and Phyllis Stueckle spent Friday through Sunday in Coeur d’Alene with their son’s family, Doug and Cheryl Stu...
Dusty Approximately 300 friends and family attended the outdoor wedding and reception Saturday of Katy Tellessen, daughter of Dave and Kathy Tellessen of Spokane, and Justin Heaton, son of Blake and Carmen Heaton of Dusty. The ceremony was performed in a gazebo specially built for the couple by the bride’s father, and situated on the lawn outside the home of the groom’s parents. Gifts for the bridal couple were placed in the bed of a ‘48 Dodge pickup owned and restored by Dwayne Normington, Hay, who also built a wagon to hold cards. In her b... Full story
Dusty The Dusty Gals Yard Sale will be held this Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in front of the Dusty Country Store in beautiful, downtown Dusty. They have vintage items, apartment/dorm needs, kitchen ware, picture frames, ski clothes and equipment, an old teacher’s desk, a vintage 1958 bowling ball and case plus many other interesting items. Do your early Christmas shopping. Only 126 shopping days left! Sunday, Katy Tellessen, fiancée of Justin Heaton, was honored guest at her bridal shower hosted by Lisa Beckley and Jill Pierson in the Be... Full story
Dusty Art and Colene Sager have returned from a week in Wisconsin. While there, they attended the Oshkosh AirVenture Show. The remainder of the time was spent at an International Flying Farmer Convention in Fond du Lac, Wis. They also stopped in Minneapolis to visit friends Alan and Judy Naumann. Cindy Pitts and her father Norm Bafus spent the weekend in Boise visiting Jen and Ryan Hammons and children Kellen, Becket and Willa. Altona Wigen was treated to her 94th birthday celebration in her home at the Courtyard in Colfax. Attending the...
