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At St. John/Endicott Schools: Monday: Tuna casserole, carrots, roll, oranges and bananas. Tuesday: Potato soup, chicken noodle soup, bologna sandwich, veggie tray / peaches. Wednesday: Chicken gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll, fruit salad. Thursday: Hamburgers, fries, cherry crisp. Friday: Chicken fajitas, Mexi rice, green salad, apple slice. At LaCrosse Schools: Monday: Hot ham, mashed potatoes, roll, mandarin oranges. Tuesday: Chili, cinnamon roll, cheese and crackers, peaches, carrots and celery. Wednesday: Pizza, corn, pineapple... Full story
Thursday, Jan. 3 Colfax, LaCrosse & Tekoa - Storytime – Fun stories, finger plays, rhymes, songs and crafts every Thursday. Check the calendar for times and themes. Friday, Jan. 4 Colfax & Tekoa – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for preschoolers and parents every Friday. Saturday, Jan 5 Rosalia – 9 a.m. – Welcome to Saturday Hours! – Join the fun and celebrate the return of Saturday Hours to Alice Porter Memorial Library. Refreshments provided by the generous Friends of Rosalia Library. Monday, Jan 7 Colfax – Noon... Full story
Bruce and Kellie Henning, Rosalia, learned about the opportunities and challenges facing cooperatives, agriculture and rural America as participants in the recent CHS New Leaders Forum sponsored by CHS Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative and a global energy, grains and foods company. They were among 300 young producers from across the U.S. participating in the early December program. The Hennings represented Cooperative Agricultural Producers of Rosalia at the forum, held in Minneapolis, Minn., in conjunction with the CHS A...
A seminar designed for progressive pork producers and stakeholders in Washington state and other Pacific Northwest states is set for Feb. 1 at Pillar Rock Grill in Moses Lake. Registration is $25 for the day’s events and includes seminars, handouts and lunch. Washington Swine Information Day features presentations that have been organized to meet the needs of Pacific Northwest swine producers. Featured speaker, Dr. Chris Hostetler, National Pork Board Director of Animal Science and former WSU Swine Center Manager, will be back in the Pacific N...
Pullman’s National Lentil Festival is seeking art submissions for its 2013 commemorative poster. The artwork will be used for all festival merchandise and advertising for the 2013 event and will be submitted for awards from the Western Festivals & Events Association as well as the International Festivals & Events Association. Art can be submitted in any form the artist deems appropriate; originals, prints or photos. Entries should depict how the artist wants to present the work on the poster and include contact information. The selected a... Full story
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... Full story
Lee Root was awarded the overall winner of the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce Christmas light display contest. Other winners were Arlin and Cindy Paulson and Joe and Julie Griffin. The Rosalia Garden Club judged entries this year. Pat Voge, chamber president, noted this year’s winners are different from past years....
• “Here’s a great discovery our family made after a recent snowstorm. It’s fun to paint on snow. Use wide paintbrushes and watercolors. Mist the snow with a water bottle to create a semi-hard surface, then paint away. We used sticks and leaves to create a border and took photos of our ‘creations.’ This way we have a memory of it after it melts away.” — R.O. in Ohio (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc....
Human safety, cattle performance, family dynamics, consumer perspectives are all impacted by the way we work cattle on our ranches. Individuals are seriously injured and even killed while handling cattle. However, there are also a large number of minor incidents, near-misses, and even serious accidents to producers, family members, and caregivers that go unreported. Low-stress cattle handling not only improves producer and family safety, morale, and retention, but has also been proven to improve animal performance, safety, health, meat quality... Full story
P.E.O. Chapter AF met Dec. 10th at the home of Robyn Johnson for their annual Christmas party. The drawing from the Dessert-A-Month ticket sales for the scholarship fund was conducted and the lucky winners are Kathy Carr and Madison Cox. The next meeting Jan.28 will be hosted by Marsha Binder. Connie McBride is in charge of the program....
Otto O. Stevens will present his photos of the Palouse area, a collection called “South from Spokane,” at the Colfax Library Monday, Jan. 7, at noon. The 30-minute presentation features a slideshow of beautiful digital images along with live narration. Attendees can bring a sack lunch or just come to watch. Among the photo subjects are Channeled Scablands, Palouse farms, Palouse Falls and Canyon, and historical structures including pioneer churches, one-room schoolhouses, barns, and homesteads. All were done in the spring of 2012. Stevens use...
Rosalia’s Community Food Drive for the first week in December finished with 1,875 items donated. High school, middle school and elementary school students competed to bring in the most food donations in a “Munch Madness” tournament format. The fourth grade class won the tournament with a pizza party and an ice cream tournament. The food drive tripled the total items from last year’s food drive. Donations from the school and Rosalia churches were collected in the Rosalia Catholic Church that Sunday. A group of volunteers met at the Catholi...
Whitman County Library is pleased to announce the hiring of Tia Langston as branch manager in the Endicott Library. She replaces Laura Jones who will be relocating to Oregon. Langston grew up in Endicott and is excited to continue the tradition of library service that she remembers as a child. Currently, services are available at the Endicott City Hall on Tuesdays from 1 to 6 p.m. and Fridays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Preschool Storytime is each Friday at 10 a.m. and after school with Third Thursday Club for grades K-3 and Fourth Thursday for...
Meet Kris Kackman, Colfax Kris and Jim Kackman feel blessed to live in the town where they grew up. Kris’ parents are Jim and Kathy Lemon, and Jim’s parents are Don and Chris Kackman. The two Mrs. Kackman’s try to keep the confusion down by making sure people notice how their names are spelled, and some of Chris’ friends call her Christine. When they married, they decided that they wanted to live in the Pacific Northwest. Jim and Alex, Kylie and Kris Kris graduated from Colfax High School in 1988 and Jim in 1989. They dated briefly, but didn’t... Full story
Washington State University Extension Specialist Stephen Van Vleet will be traveling to Afghanistan next week to teach Afghani extension educators. Stephen Van Vleet teaching in Iraq with the Iraqi Director of Extension, bottom right. Van Vleet will be one of three American extension personnel going to Kabul to teach extension organization, program development and planning and other basic extension methods. “With all the problems Afghanistan has had, there’s been a lot of funds poured into Afghanistan,” Van Vleet said. So much money has come...
Holiday Blues It is that time of year when we come together with friends and families to celebrate the holidays. It can be a joyous time for many yet there are also those who experience sadness during the holiday season. There are a number of things you can do to cope with the sadness. Exercise can help lift your mood – and help you tackle the after-effects of too many calories. It is the basis for a healthy lifestyle – and something we need more of in our hospital service area. We have higher rates of inactivity and obesity than the Was... Full story
The Meaning of Christianity If you are a Christian, and reading this article, then this message is for you. If you are not a Christian, and find yourself reading this, then this article is for you as well. I have been a Christian for a mere 22 years, having accepted Christ at the age of 29. I don’t know it all, and I don’t pretend to. I find myself each and every day in awe of the power and majesty of a God who gave His one and only Son, so that I could live. And since that day, in April of 1990, when I surrendered to the love of God, as dem... Full story
Issue #1 of 1888 is unavailable 100 years ago Jan. 3, 1913 A St. John farmer finds more profit in feeding wheat to hogs. That feeding wheat to hogs is profitable has again been demonstrated by Bert Wagner who early in the fall weighed in a bunch of porkers at his ranch, charging himself for them at the rate paid for hogs at that time. He then weighed all the wheat fed to them, charged himself for the wheat at the price then quoted and when marketed recently, found that his hogs had made him a profit of 22 cents per bushel on his wheat within...
Phillip Young Phillip R. Young, long-time Colfax resident, died Wednesday, Dec. 26, at the Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane. Mr. Young was 88. In accordance with his request, a funeral service will not be conducted. Margaret Flynn Margaret M. Flynn, age 93, a resident of Palouse for the past four years, passed away Saturday evening at her home in Palouse. Arrangements are pending at Kramer Funeral Home. A full obituary will be in next week’s paper....
First Wind has announced that applications are now open and available online for its 2013 scholarship program. Entering its fourth full year, the program offers scholarships to qualified high school seniors in communities where the company currently has projects in operation. Students at schools in the north half of the county, where First Wind now operates its Naff Ridge turbine farm, are eligible to apply. That includes students at Garfield-Palouse, Oakesdale, Rosalia, St. John-Endicott, Liberty (Spangle) and Tekoa. For more information or...
These reports are from the previous four issues of the Daily Bulletin in Colfax. They are reprinted here for the benefit of Gazette readers who reside outside of Colfax. Some accounts have been updated. ***************** SUPERIOR COURT DOES FIRST REVIEW The Whitman County Superior Court did its first ever review, according to court personnel. For this year, the court continued 54 cases which means people who are behind in payments. People getting bench warrants for not complying with judgments and sentences numbered 51. Twenty people paid in fu...
Chris Clark, Barney Buckley and Andy Rogers investigate a water leak at the corner of Main Street and Wall Street in Colfax Dec. 28. Business owner Steve Rimbey stands by....
(Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008.) There comes a time in every teenage boy’s life when the best thing he can do for the other members of his family is take a bath. His glands are producing testosterone, which is a hormone that causes deepening voices, body odors and “Jackass” movies. When boys first start experiencing testosterone, they have no idea how to control the reckless impulses that will seize their brains. Later, once they’ve matured, they will discover that they can master these impulses — they’ll... Full story
As we look ahead in 2013, the cost and availability of electricity will become more important to our families, farmers, merchants and factories. Washington is blessed with abundant low-cost hydropower, which supplies 75 percent of our electricity. But low-cost reliable energy supplies are dwindling, and power rates are climbing, even as our dependence on electricity increases. That impacts jobs and family budgets. Millions of Washington homes have computers, large power-hungry televisions and multiple electronic devices. Our major industries,... Full story
It has been a bad time for the Republican Party, and wouldn’t you know it? The worst addition to President Barack Obama’s foreign-policy team could well be a Republican. Former Nebraska Sen. Chuck Hagel is reportedly under serious consideration to replace Leon Panetta as secretary of defense. A self-styled foreign-policy realist, Hagel is out of the mainstream and terminally naive. It would be one thing if Hagel were merely what he so often seemed when he was a regular on the Sunday talk shows — a tiresome purveyor of conventional wisdom overly...
