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Preliminary plans are underway for an addition to the Community Building at the Palouse Empire Fair. The project will be undertaken by the Palouse Empire Fair Foundation and presented to the fair by that organization. Chad Startin, a fair board member and president of the Fair Foundation, introduced the project at the Jan. 26 fair board meeting. Startin said a supporter of the fair has asked to support a major improvement project through the foundation. Fair Manager Bob Reynolds reported the Community Building has become very popular as a...
8 years ago The Commoner Feb. 7, 1890 Spring Flat was on a rampage Monday and residents in town in its immediate vicinity viewed its turbulent waters with no little anxiety. It was higher than ever known before but only lasted for a few hours. It is reported at Palouse City the wind which passed over this section of country on Monday afternoon reached something of hurricane proportions of that place lifting the M.E. church completely off its foundation, and knocking down two or three saw mill smoke stacks. During the high wind which...
An April 13 trial date was set Friday in superior court for Terry DeCremer, 28, Pullman, after he pleaded not guilty to charges filed following an arrest Jan. 23 in Pullman. DeCremer faces charges of arson, malicious mischief and obstructing justice from an episode which started with a report of domestic violence at a residence on SW Shirley Street. The Pullman Police report alleged DeCremer drove away from the residence and then attempted to set his car on fire by sticking a rag in the gas tank and lighting it. A Pullman officer doused the... Full story
Nine junior girls have entered the competition for the Colfax Distinguished Young Woman 2015 competition. Practices for the event began Jan. 26. The competition has been scheduled for March 21. Name of the event for this year will be “Jilligan’s” Island. The Colfax DYW winner will compete for the state honors in August. Also the first runner-up will compete in the Miss Palouse Empire Fair competition later in the summer. Entrants this year are Roxanne Allenbach, Sara Appel, Allison Dunning, Pearl Griffiths, Morgan Lord, Olivia Mellor, Haile...
A graveside service for Byrdene W. Entenmann, 87, former long-time Colfax resident, was Thursday, Feb. 5, at 11 a.m. at Greenwood Memorial Terrace, 211 N. Government Way in Spokane. Mrs. Entenmann died Jan. 30, 2015, at Evergreen Center in Kirkland. Born July 15, 1927, in Seattle to John and Mary Warner, she was raised in Seattle until the family moved to Spokane when she was 17. She graduated from North Central High School and worked in banking. She met Felix Entenmann in Spokane and their marriage lasted for 65 years until he died last year.... Full story
Thursday, February 5 All Branches — Food for Fines — Help your neighbors and clear old library fines. Albion — 4 p.m. — Craft Day — After school Pre-Valentine party with treats and card making. Colton — 6 p.m. — Book Club — Join the discussion of “Whispers of the Bayou” by Mindy Starns Clark. Everyone’s welcome! Friday, February 6 Endicott, LaCrosse, St. John & Uniontown — Early learning Storytime with books, singing and crafts for ages six and younger. Check the calendar for times. Colfax — 3:30 to 7:30 p.m. — Sears Academy of Dance — Fo...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Biscuit, gravy, egg patty, juice, hash brown. Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, rice, hot carrots, green salad, fruit. Wednesday: Pizza, Caesar salad, pineapple fruit sidekick. Thursday: Straw hats, refried beans, Frito chips, fruit, donut. Friday: Bulldog burger, fries, lettuce, tomato, fruit. AT GARFIELD/ PALOUSE SCHOOLS: Monday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, country gravy, cooked carrots, apple slices, peaches, breadstick. Tuesday: Super nachos, taco meat, tomatoes, salsa, refried beans, cheese sauce, tortilla...
St. John and Endicott school districts will conduct the annual childfind screening for children up to five years of age. Dates will be March 23 in Endicott and March 26 in St. John. The screening includes tests of the motor area, cognitive area, vision, hearing and speech and language. All of the testing is provided at no cost. The goal of this screening is to provide information to parents about their youngster's development. This information will also help the school district prepare educational needs, according to Missy Repp, special... Full story
Mackenzie Link and Travis Cooper plan a June 6 wedding at Chateau Rive in Spokane. The daughter of Jon and Barb Link of Colfax, Mackenzie is a 2009 Colfax High School graduate and became a certified medical assistant at Spokane Community College in 2012. She is employed at a pediatric office practice in Spokane. Cooper, son of Alex and Lisa Cooper of Pullman, is a 2009 graduate of Pullman High School. He earned a degree in exercise science/pre-occupational therapy from Eastern Washington...
Whitney and Francisco have been in the Palouse for several years and both love it. Whitney was born in Lawrence, Kan., home of the University of Kansas. Her family lived both on her grandfather’s farm and in town. After her parents divorced she moved with her mother to the Seattle area as a seventh grader. Her mother remarried, and in 1999, her father moved to the Northwest to be closer to his three daughters. Whitney graduated from Monroe High School and Running Start at Cascadia Community Coll...
Endicott These are the scores from the Endicott Gun Club Sunday trap shooting. Eighteen shooters participated in snowing conditions. Men: Connor Pelissier 22, Mark Teal 22, Mike Melcher 20, Jimmy Pelissier 20, Tyson Olson 20. Women: Amanda Pelissier 17, Jessica Geissinger 14. Juniors: Chase Schluneger 16, Carsten Miller 16, Conr Hergert 16, Joe Vietz 14....
Casey Hall and Shania Simonson of Colfax were among 401 students at Northwest Nazarene University in Nampa, Idaho, to qualify for the dean's list with a grade average of 3.5 or higher while taking at least 12 graded credit hours of classes.... Full story
First semester honor roll students at LaCrosse High School with grade averages of 3.0 or higher included Cole Evans, Jacob Johnson and Jason Wigen, seniors; Jessica Guske, Weston Miller and Jazlynn Webb, juniors; Britte Harder, Nicole Harder and Abigail McGregor, sophomores. Junior high students on the honor roll are Alynn Harder, Holly Lindgren, Autumn Meyers, Logan Stanley and Jordanne Webb, eighth grade; Matea Enzweiler, Trey Fleming, T.J. Harder, Blake Jones and Lauren Stubbs, seventh grade; Zoe Bailey, Ty Harder, Austin Jones, Genevieve...
Dusty Dusty BB Club will meet at 1 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 11. Hostesses are Rita Ackerman and Dianne Appel. Roll call will be to recite an old poem, and the program will be to share poetry. The Rev. Dave Hogan, husband of Dusty native Elaine Stueckle Hogan, will preach the morning worship service Sunday, Feb. 8, at Selbu Lutheran Church. He is from the Richland Lutheran Church. Denise Kendall, Tacoma, arrived to visit her father, Oscar Broeckel, Saturday afternoon and returned to her home Monday after attending services for former LaCrosse... Full story
The fourth annual Women in Agriculture Conference will offer women in Washington, Oregon, Idaho and Alaska a unique opportunity to gather in 28 locations for a one-day event featuring knowledgeable speakers, inspiring stories, practical advice for improving farm management skills and networking with other women producers. On Feb. 21, the 2015 Women in Agriculture Conference will be "Put Your Best Boot Forward" which covers the topic of making sense of marketing. The local segment of the conference will be in Pullman at the Ensminger Pavilion... Full story
Vlad Strava Sirbu, 21, Bellevue, was sentenced to three months in jail Friday morning in superior court after he pleaded guilty to a charge of second degree burglary. He was arrested Dec. 17 when members of the Theta Chi fraternity at WSU discovered him in the fraternity house in the middle of the night. He had attempted to take a flat screen television off a wall but had dropped it. Strava Sirbu told the court he had traveled to Pullman, started drinking and then decided to enter the fraternity. The original charge of residential burglary was... Full story
A group of Colton junior high students have begun a fund-raiser to collect scrap metal for recycling. Pacific Steel and Recycling of Lewiston has an account set up for proceeds of donations of recycled metal to go to fund a Colton science trip to the Florida Everglades conducted by World Strides. A total of five students are signed up for next summer’s trip led by Colton science teacher Eric Nordquist. Anyone interested in donating metal to recycle may do so in one of two ways. Metal may be taken to Lewiston with the request that the money b...
The Colfax School District board approved a co-op agreement Jan. 26 to allow Oakesdale High School students to play on the Colfax High baseball teams. They also approved an agreement with St. John-Endicott for junior high wrestlers to compete here. According to WIAA rules, both schools’ student populations are combined with Colfax to determine sports classification. The total number will still be within the 2B classification Colfax’s participation in the Northeast 2B league. The agreement was...
From left to right, Leslee Miller, Uniontown library expansion project coordinator; Nichole Jordan, Uniontown librarian, and Northwest Farm Credit Services officials Josh Huff, Doug Robison and Sam Lavigne. The effort to expand the Uniontown Library got another boost in January with a $2,000 donation from Northwest Farm Credit Services. The total puts the Whitman County Library within $5,000 of its goal to triple the library’s space by moving it into the city hall’s fire truck garage. The origin...
A complete gutting and rebuild of a house at 1007 S. Mill Street in Colfax will be one of two Community Action Center housing projects set for this spring. The two projects will be funded with a $897,000 grant from the Washington State Housing Trust fund. The other project will involve construction of a new fourplex unit on a vacant lot in Pullman at the intersection of Summer and Center streets two blocks west of S. Grand, according to Dale Miller, head of the CAC housing program based in Pullman. The projects are designed to provide...
Real estate sales Fannie Mae also known as Federal National Mortgage Association, Dallas, Texas, to Joseph Hooper and Robert Hooper, Oakesdale, house and four lots in Oakesdale, $20,001, Jan. 23. Raymond Henry and Debra A. Stinson, Colfax, to Jennifer E. Slovak and Robert G. Dyke, Pullman, house on SE Spring Street in Pullman, $295,000, Jan. 23. Shirley M. Hardy, Cindy Scharpenberg August, Donna K. Scharpenberg Swavely and Lois Barry, Lewiston, to Richard and Lois Barry, LaCrosse, land on Scharpenberg Road near LaCrosse, $90,000, Jan. 23.... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. You’d think I’d enjoy a baby shower — after all, I like to see babies (I even was a baby once), and I like to take showers. But I’ve always elected to avoid them because no one has ever invited me. That all changed when a former co-worker asked a bunch of us over to celebrate her former pregnancy. She now had a little 6-month-old girl she named Andie and wanted to throw a coed baby shower so all of the men would feel stupid. See, baby showers have their own rules and their... Full story
Can you imagine a nation’s president, a former guerilla fighter with socialist leanings, enacting policies that favor business and encourage foreign investment? How about a leader who prefers living in a farmhouse rather than the presidential mansion? That person is José Mujica, the 79-year old president of Uruguay who finishes his five-year term in March. Uruguay, a small South American country sandwiched between Argentina and Brazil, does not allow a president to stand for reelection, so later this spring, Mujica will take a seat in the se...
The White House has now become a stickler for protocol, especially when it comes to relations between the two political branches. The new persnicketiness arises from House Speaker John Boehner’s invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu to speak before a joint session of Congress in March. The invite is being denounced as a major breach and new low in Washington because he didn’t, as had been the traditional practice with such invitations, coordinate with the White House. As far as violations of the separation of powers in the Oba...
This column received this week was written before Mitt Romney announced he would not run for president. Do politicians flat-out lie, or do they merely backtrack? The answer is both, but in Mitt Romney’s case, the backtracking is so frequent, so practiced, that the guy rivals Michael Jackson with his moonwalking. A little traipse down memory lane to the 2012 campaign reveals how frantically Romney reversed himself whenever it was expedient. Pro-choice in an earlier political incarnation? No problem in 2012, when he needed to be pro-life. A leadi...
