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Donald C. Collier A graveside service for Donald C. Collier, 88, has been scheduled for Saturday, April 2, 2016, at 11 a.m. in the Steptoe cemetery. A celebration of life will follow at the Colfax Golf Course club building. Mr. Collier died Jan. 28, 2016, at his home in Walla Walla where he had lived for the last 16 years. Born Oct. 6, 1927, at Paha, Wash., to Maude and Benjamin Collier, he was a member of large family which moved to a farm in the Steptoe Butte area when he was four years old....
Make Long-Term Care Coverage More Affordable Dear Savvy Senior, I have been thinking about getting a long-term care insurance policy, but have found the monthly premiums to be very expensive. How can I find cheaper coverage? Getting Old Dear Getting, Cost is usually the biggest factor that keeps most people from purchasing long-term care insurance – only around eight million Americans currently have a policy. Depending on your age, health and the provisions of the policy, costs can range anywhere from $1,000 up to $5,000 a year for an i...
8 years ago The Commoner Feb. 13, 1891 In September 1885 there was one newspaper in Colfax. It was the Palouse Gazette. It was a good weekly at that time, and its proprietors used to boast that no journal started in opposition to it could live. There were a few gentlemen who thought, however, that a paper which would represent and advocate the principles of the great national Democratic party could find patrons enough to keep it alive. As a result a stock company was formed, comprised of James Benton, W. J. Hamilton, C. H. Warner, F. M....
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Biscuit with gravy, egg patty, ham patty, fruit, juice. Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, rice, fresh veggies, fruit. Wednesday: Chicken-bacon stuffwich, Caesar salad, fruit, Jello. Thursday: Chicken Alfredo, carrots, breadstick, fruit. Friday: Bulldog burger, cheese slice, french fries, BBQ beans, fruit. AT OAKESDALE SCHOOL: Monday: Teriyaki beef dippers, WG roll, whipped potatoes with gravy, assorted veggies, grapes and mandarin oranges, milk. Tuesday: Cheese pizza, assorted veggies, strawberries and pears, WG chocolate...
Thursday, Feb. 18 Albion – 5 p.m. – Fireside Chat – Visit around our “fire” with friends over tea and cocoa. Friday, Feb. 19 Colfax – 12 to 3:30 p.m. – Savory Soups Workshop with Kelli Collins – Everyone’s invited to attend this free workshop. Palouse – 6 p.m. – Adult Coloring, heart themed and snacks provided, bring a friend! Saturday, Feb. 20 St. John – 9 a.m. – Morning Book Club – Join in the discussion, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” by Maria Semple. Everyone’s welcome. Uniontown – 2 p.m. – Free Portrait Day – Come get your portrait,...
Grace L. Dickerson, Abby L. Glorfield and Aja N. Schmick, seniors, and Caitlyn L. Blumenshein, junior, topped the semester honor roll and St. John/Endicott High School with all-A grades. High honor students with grade averages of 3.5 to 3.99 included Joshua R. Archer, Angela L. Howes, Jacob M. Blakeley, Adam Staves, Zakkery M. Stein, Gage M. Stein and Luke Q. Bailey, seniors; Reagan J. Harrison, Jamie Johnson, Adam J. Blakeley, Luke L. Blumenshein, Hunter R. Hollingsworth, Cooper J. Lundberg, Ethan L. Selk, Whitney A. Walker, Emma D. Shepherd,...
Logan Reed, a freshman, and Tyler Bober, a seventh grader, topped the first semester honor roll at Oakesdale with all-A grades. High honors students with grade averages of 3.5 to 3.99 include Kaela Fisch, Dustin Warwick, Parker Perry and Tanner Dingman, seniors; Lindsey Lindgren, Willie Whalon, Danielle Young, Hayden Brown and Austin Rutledge, juniors; Madison Shrope and Maxx Curtis, sophomores; Amber Jones, Aliya Rutledge, Luke Jones, Meaghan Belland and Evan Henning, freshman; Madison Dingman, Samantha Meserve and Julie Baljo, eighth grade;...
Katie Graham, daughter of Andy and Martie Graham of Bellevue, and Cody Wuestney, son of Pat and Karen Wuestney of Dusty, plan a July 3 wedding in Spokane. The bride-elect graduated from Newport High School in 2011 and from Washington State University with a degree in nursing in December. Wuestney graduated from Colfax High School in 2011 and will receive a degree in civil engineering from Washington State University in May. They plan to make their home in Seattle, where he will be employed with...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Tuesday, Feb. 23: Colfax Pantry, 121 S. Main, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24: St. John Methodist Church, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 25: Garfield Legion/Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 to 11 a.m.; Endicott 7th Day Adventist Church, 6 to 7:30 p.m.; Tekoa City Hall, 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.; Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 to 10...
Klezmer music set for Dahmen Gefilte Trout will perform European klezmer music Feb. 20 at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. They will perform songs sung in Yiddish, Hebrew and Ladino, the language of the Jewish people of Spain, and tell the stories behind them. Traditional desserts will be served with coffee and tea, and wine and beer will be available to purchase Founded in 2005, Gefilte Trout grew out of the band Dancing Trout which played American old time fiddle music for dances. Members from Moscow and from Pullman include Mary Donohoe, vocals...
Dusty David Stueckle and Steve Appel attended Farm Bureau Legislative Days in Olympia last week from Monday to Wednesday. Nine members of the Dusty B.B. Club plus guest Lisa Frey and children met at the home of Helen Appel last Wednesday for a fun day of playing Bingo. Helen and Liz Appel were co-hostesses. The next meeting will also be at the home of Helen Appel, Wednesday, March 9, at 1 p.m. Liz Appel will present a glass painting lesson. Members are asked to bring their itty bitty paint brushes for detail work, if they have them. Roll call...
Sam Coodley, a documentary film maker from Portland, was in the north part of the county last week to start work on a film about the John Wayne Trail. Coodley plans to include the origins of the trail and the ill-fated effort last year in the legislature to shut down the middle section of the trail from the Columbia River to Malden. He was at the old Milwaukee freight wreck site on the south end of the trestle over Pine Creek near Hole-in-the-Ground Road Sunday....
Tribute to an old friend The other day as I was walking down the hall at the high school, I went by one of the opened doors to the gym and I noticed my old friend, Scooter Brannon, quietly seated on the bleachers. I looked at this as an opportunity to say hi and ask of his health. We shook hands, exchanged pleasantries and talked of the girls’ success on the basketball court. While sitting there and sharing I looked up to see that the whole girls’ basketball team had formed a tight semicircle around us and Carmen Gfeller had seated herself nex...
Colfax MARRIAGE LICENSES Mahipathi Reddy Appannagari, 28, and Sweta Khanal, 25, both Pullman, Feb. 9. BUILDING PERMITS Marshall Gibbs, Cheney, framing and interior work at S. 204 Main, $20,000, Feb. 4. Gary and Janice Behymer, gas furnace at 612 E. Valleyview, $4,322, Feb. 5. Jerry and Marsha Binder, gas furnace at 802 E. Southview, $3,222, Feb. 5. Tom Welch, gas furnace at 208 E. Cooper $3,950, Feb. 12. John and Brook Rohner, tub to shower conversion at 1813 & 1/2 Oak Street, $6,700, Feb. 12. REAL ESTATE SALES Garrett Unlimited Liability Co.,...
The Colfax Chamber of Commerce has started selling tickets for the 16th annual Wine and Micro Beer Auction. The event is slated for April 29 from 6 to 9 p.m., and tickets are $20 for individuals or $150 for a table of eight. Colfax’s Unified Executive Director Valoree Gregory said that usually about 100 people attend the event, and she is hoping for that number to go up this year. “We’d like to bump it up because we had to turn away people last year,” she said. All the auction items will be from Chamber members, and Gregory said that all the...
In 1962, songwriter Bob Dylan composed "The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind." It was a Vietnam War protest song suggesting the ambiguous answer to ending war and living in peace and harmony was “blowin’ in the wind”...somewhere. Today, wind power is an important part of our nation’s electricity generating system and it will be essential in the decades ahead. The question is how much of it can we reasonably produce to meet our nation’s growing electrical demands? While people support wind power they aren’t hip about seeing thousands of...
In the blink of an eye, we've gone from opening combat jobs to women to Republican presidential candidates endorsing registering women for a draft. Hide your daughters -- our deluded and cowardly political elites are a clear and present danger to common sense. A proposal from the chief of staff of the Army and the commandant of the Marine Corps to require that women register with Selective Service seemed at first like an effort to highlight the absurd endpoint of the rush to women in combat, but top Republicans duly saluted and fell in line....
Hillary Clinton can duke it out when she needs to. Or duchess it out. That was on display during the recent Democratic debate when she confronted Bernie Sanders' persistent charges that she is tainted by her financial ties to Wall Street and the political "establishment." His accusation, she spit out, was "a very artful smear." "Smear" is one of the most brutal pejoratives in the campaign game. With Martin O'Malley no longer cluttering the stage, it was just Bernie and Hillary, mano a womano. And she played the female card: "Sen. Sanders is...
He's just a socialist offering free stuff. Only a few years ago, the charge would have worked. But in 2016, what used to be the forlorn lament of the purest liberal is now enough to build a legitimate presidential campaign on. The issue, as it's named, is “income inequality.” It's misleading though, because most of Bernie Sanders' supporters don't even have a problem with it. The vast majority of Americans are all for successful, accomplished people getting rich. But they do have a problem if...
Colfax fans celebrate after the girls basketball team defeated St. George’s to take the district championship Friday. These reports are from the previous three 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. TWO ACCIDENTS ON 26 Ronald J. Smith, Kennewick, was unhurt Monday when he lost control of a 2010 Hyundai Elantra on Highway 26 west of Dusty. According to the Washington State P...
The Garfield/Palouse Viking Booster Club presented a plaque to Tim Coles Jan. 29, who retired last summer as the ninth-winningest high school basketball coach in Washington state history. He coached the Vikings for 28 seasons for a record of 525-194, with three state championships. Coles spent a total of 34 years at Garfield/Palouse schools as a teacher, principal and coach....
St. George's Hailey Higashi gets plenty of attention from Colfax defenders as she moves down the court Friday at West Valley in the NE championship game. Giving chase for the Bulldogs, from the left, are Faith Markley, Greta Geier and Katelyn Scholz. Colfax won the title game, but Higashi finished with 28 points, including eight three-point shots. Colfax girls collect the NE trophy Friday at West Valley after defeating St. George's in the championship game. In front, from the left are coach...
On their way to an unprecedented seventh straight state championship last year, it was their biggest test. Undefeated entering the district championship game at Clarkston, the white steam billowing over the Lewiston grade, the Colton girls met Touchet and Cierra Jo McKeown. It took state 1B Player of the Year Savannah Chadwick to keep McKeown under enough control – and two key drives by Zoe Moser in the waning minutes – for the Wildcats to escape with a four-point win. From there, through the...
Colfax wrestlers followed a team traditon with the bleached-blonde look in the week before departing for the state mat classic at the Tacoma Dome. In front, from the left, are Reggie Jones, Chris Jones, Garrett Phillips and Nick McAdams. In back with coach Dennis Gransbery are Mitch Barney, left, and Brian DeYoung. Six Colfax wrestlers qualified for the state mat classic this weekend at the Tacoma Dome with top-four finishes at the regional meet Saturday at Reardan. The regional round for all B...
Vikings senior Mitch Dymkoski takes the ball to the hoop against Pomeroy Saturday in a second round game. Like a lackluster offering from Anheuser-Busch showing up at the Palouse Cabin Fever Brewfest, the Pomeroy Pirates came to town last Saturday and got dismissed, 69-44. After a first round bye, Garfield/Palouse took the victory, led by Ian Niebergs with 26 points and Mitch Dymkoski's 15, putting the Vikings in the district championship game for the third consecutive year. Last year at...
