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NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, Washington, will consider the Report of the County Road Engineer for the vacation and abandonment of all that portion of School Street adjacent to Lots 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8 of Block 1, Second Addition to Elberton and all that portion of Third Street adjacent to Lot 6 of Block 6 and Lot 1 of Block 7, Original Town of Elberton, in the SE of Section 11, Township 17 North, Range 44 East, W. M., Whitman County, Washington. THAT A HEARING on said vacation...
At Colfax Schools: Monday: Macaroni and cheese, smokies, fruit, green beans, bread stick Tuesday: Nuggets, rice, hot carrots, fruit, graham bear Wednesday: Corn dog, nachos, caesar salad, Feb. b-day cake, fruit Thursday: Taco, tater tots, refried beans, fruit Friday: Bulldog burger, fries, fresh veggie, fruit At Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, country gravy, bread stick, cooked carrots, apple slices, peaches Tuesday: Super nachos, taco meat, diced tomatoes, salsa, refried beans, cheese sauce, tortilla chip... Full story
Demands of those unwilling to give It is not easy to follow Jesus - not because Christ is unable to bear our burdens and to give us rest, - nor because Jesus does not have the power to make us new and turn us into the salt of the earth and the light of the world. It is not easy because it demands of us more than most people are willing to give. Can you imagine what it must have been like for the families of Andrew and Paul, and James and John, when they dropped everything, and followed Jesus and his message that the kingdom of heaven has come...
Jean M. Rounds A memorial service for Jean M. Rounds, 77, will be Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014, at 11 a.m. at Kramer Funeral Home, Palouse, with the Rev. Kathy Kramer officiating. She died Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014, at the Pullman Regional Hospital in Pullman. Born March 1, 1936, at Oroville, to Charles Leslie and Margaret (Kehoe) De Merchant, she attended schools at Osoyoos, B.C., and graduated from high school there. She married Harold Rounds Sept. 27, 1954, at Lewiston. The couple made their home at Lewiston where Mr. Rounds was employed at... Full story
Meet the Artist The next Meet the Artist session Thursday, March 6, at 7 p.m. in the Colfax Library will feature Laurel Macdonald who works in oils, watercolors and linocuts. She will share her artwork, her inspirations and tips of the trade. Train disaster talk slated at library Jim Martine, a train history enthusiast, will discuss the Wellington Disaster of the Great Northern Rail Line and the Iron Goat Trail on Saturday, March 1, from 3:30-5:30 at the Colfax Library. Admission is free and the slide presentationis sponsored by the Guy-Albion...
Honor roll students honored at the St. John Elementary semester awards assembly Feb. 5 included Ashlynn Archer, Brooklyn Bailey, Riley Brennan, Carson Corder, Sophia Larsen, Matthew Logen, Max Lundberg, Mason Pitts and Alex Thrasher, fourth grade; Cale Crider, Roxy Dickerson, Eric Hergert, Isabel Shepherd, Colby Swannack and Ellie Tollett, fifth grade. ASB classroom representatives included Tyler Hough, Jesse Addison, Braiden Thomas, Lilamarie Smith, Will Tollett, Nicole Bertsch, Colton O’Keefe, Riley Brennan, Max Lundberg, Cale Crider and C... Full story
Wise Healthcare Consumer Month February is National Wise Healthcare Consumer Month. While health care costs have slowed their growth in the last few years, they are still very high, driven partly by consumer choices. Almost 23 percent of all doctor visits and 55 percent of all emergency room visits could be avoided if people took better care of themselves and were better consumers of medical services. Being a wise consumer begins with knowing what you want in a medical provider and seeking out someone who you are compatible with. You should...
Thursday, February 20 Colfax – 6:30 p.m. – Zumba with Brenda Camp – Bring a friend and party yourself into shape. Pay by the month or by the class. Endicott – 7 p.m. – Book Club – Join the discussion of Garth Stein’s, “The Art of Racing in the Rain.” Everyone’s invited. Friday, February 21 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Endicott, St. John and Uniontown – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Friday. Saturday, Febru... Full story
Lacrosse The Student of Character assembly for January’s trait of respect through kindness was Feb. 12 in the Pit. It opened with the four K-12 teams playing a game similar in format to the Newlywed Game with LaCrosse school trivia questions. The Black Widows matched four questions to win. Five mile and 10 mile winners from elementary P.E. class were Grace Morris, 5; Quincy Morris, Ellie Pierson, Avery Fleming, Landen Miller, Julia Guske, McKenzie Stanley, Tanner Fleming, Austin Stanley, Abree Aune, Wyatt Schwartz, Nick Webb and Kaelea Reeves,...
LaCrosse school adopted a small private K-12 school in Haiti this school year. The name of the school is Te Wouj and it is about the same size as the LaCrosse school but receives no government support for their needs. The students and staff decided to raise money for food, books and other supplies. This was accomplished in two ways. One was called Friday Hats for Haiti Day. Every Friday during December students and staff could wear a hat to school by paying $1. There was also a competition for...
The Bliss Girls, Colfax Bridget, Dawn, Jodi, Wes, Jamie, Toni, Tiffany The seven women who work at Bliss are a busy lot, helping relax, rejuvenate, and beautify Colfax and nearby residents. Jamie Anderson, Dawn Bennett, and Toni Grow are licensed massage therapists. Tiffany Pittman, Wes Hennigar, and Jody Weitze style and color hair and skin care. Bridget Harazin is a skin care therapist who does waxing, makeup and airbrush tanning. Dawn Bennett came to Colfax in 1990. A licensed massage...
Endicott The Endicott Community Club held its monthly meeting Feb. 11 at the Endicott Food Center. Members present were Gail Bilow, Sue Bafus, Jerine Gray, Colleen Winchester, Myrna Morasch, Ann Stoner, Cinda Tribble, Jenny Meyer and Anne Lowe. A committee was formed to discuss and plan the Garage Sale Day some time this spring. Ideas for July Fourth celebration were discussed. Elizabeth Circle was held at Trinity Lutheran Church on Feb. 11 to continue making blankets to be sent to missions for the children. Endicott Gun Club Scores From Feb....
Fourteen students who earned all-A grades to top the honor roll at St. John/Endicott High School for the first semester were Annie Bailey, Sami Bailey, RJ Baltierra, Emily Jones, Jade Porubek, Micah Selk and Heather Siegel, seniors; Shania Bailey and Jordan Porubek, juniors; Gracie Dickerson, Abby Glorfield, Jazmyn Ray and Aja Schmick, sophomores; Caitlyn Blumenshein, freshman. Earning high honors with grade averages from 3.5 to 3.99 were Morgan Anderson, Elle Bailey, Landon Hallenius and Amber Walker, seniors; Robin Becker, Rowdy Brown,...
Megan Pearson of Colfax, Anna Feuerstein of Pullman and Gretchen Van Lith of St. John have been named to the Whitworth University laureate society for fall semester 2013 by maintaining a grade point average of 3.75 or higher....
Dusty Tony and Denise Kendall, Tacoma, spent the weekend with her father Oscar Broeckel. Sunday, they celebrated Denise’s, Doreen’s and Tom Riedner’s birthdays a week early with dinner in Colfax. Attending the celebration were Denise and Tony Kendall, Tom and Doreen Riedner, Oscar Broeckel, Brian and Angela Broeckel, Graham BeDell and Karen Broeckel. The group also celebrated Graham BeDell’s announcement that he will be valedictorian for the graduating class of 2014 at LaCrosse High School in June. Larry Brink had hip replacement surgery... Full story
The 4H Palouse Area Robotics Team’s F.I.R.S.T. Lego League team in Colfax competed in the Washington State FLL Semi Finals in Moses Lake last Saturday. The Colfax Electro Squids earned the Inspirational Trophy and came in 4th in the Robot Performance competition. They will compete against more than 50 teams at the state finals at CWU in Ellensburg this Saturday. Pictured here in neon green shirts at left are Dylan Nails and Connor Johnson for the driver team.... Full story
Tekoa High School and Tekoa Junior High School will hold “Rachel’s Challenge” Tuesday, Feb. 25. With the goal to create and nurture a culture of kindness and caring, the program will run in two sessions from 9 to 11 a.m. and 1 to 2:45 p.m. The event is sponsored by the Healthy Tekoa Coalition and five Tekoa school staff members will act as adult facilitators. Rachel’s Challenge, which will come to Tekoa for the first time, is based on the life and writings of Rachel Scott, a victim of the Columbine school shootings in 1999. The morning session... Full story
Ranchers, farmers and landowners again crowded the county’s Public Service Building auditorium in Colfax last Thursday for a second meeting with officials from the state’s Department of Ecology. The session lasted more than two hours. Three state Department of Ecology staff members from Spokane who attended were Chad Atkins, Mike Kuttels and David Knight. Atkins and Kuttels were at the December meeting. Because there were so many unanswered questions in December, DOE officials were invited to the second meeting by the Whitman Conservation Dis...
Members of the Sciborgs, a 4H F.I.R.S.T. Robotics team from Whitman County, gather during final preparations of their robot in Colfax Monday. Midnight Tuesday was the deadline to complete their machine for upcoming regional competitions in March in Ellensburg and Cheney. In competition, each teams’ robot works to shoot balls (as pictured) through high goals on a court. This will be the third year of the Whitman County team participating in the For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and T...
Real estate sales Lora M. Riley, Snohomish, to Gideon David and Amy R. Burum, Aurora, Colo., 1989 14x66 mobile home on S. Grand Avenue in Pullman, $19,500, Feb. 11. Joseph P. Hanford and Kathleen Bray, and Robert and Dora T. Hanford, trustees of the Hanford Living Trust, Fresno, Calif., to Dale 2012 Ag Land LP, Dallas, Texas, three parcels of agriculture land near McCoy and Pine creek, $306,000, Feb. 12. Soren N. Newman and Erik Brynestad, Pullman, to Scott C. and Elizabeth M. Wilson, Pullman, house on NW Fisk Street in Pullman, $130,500, Feb....
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. Squirrel War One This is the first in a two-part series in which I go man-to-man in a heroic battle of wits with a squirrel. Now, I know what you’re thinking: not exactly a fair fight, my brain against that of a tree-climbing rodent. But don’t fret — to even up the odds, I had my dog helping me. Some time ago, I put a bird feeder out on the balcony because I like to feed birds and not squirrels. Within minutes, however, a small, grey, definitively non-avian squirrel was sit... Full story
Night of Champions One of main things that attracted my husband and I to the Pullman-Palouse area was the wonderful environment it provides for raising children. Although when we arrived in the area, we weren’t parents yet, we knew that we wanted to start a family soon. In addition to the great parks, family-welcoming events, and high-ranked schools, we were aware that there is a fantastic organization that helps children with disabilities - Boost Collaborative (then called Early Learning Services). Of course, we never expected that we would n...
The Party of Less Work The Democrats once styled themselves the party of workers. Now, they are the party of people who would have been workers, if it hadn’t been for Obamacare. The Congressional Budget Office released a new analysis of the economic effects of the health-care law that estimates that it will reduce the number of workers, in effect, by 2.5 million in 2024. This unleashed a torrent of arguments from the Democrats implicitly denigrating the value of work. Perhaps not since Southern “fire-eaters” attacked Northern “wage slavery” in... Full story
Profane Foreign Relations Call it “gall” or “brass” or “chutzpah,” whichever you prefer, but the State Department has an abundance of it. At State, there’s quite a bit of embarrassment over a surreptitious recording that’s gone public of a telephone call between Victoria Nuland, the assistant secretary for European Affairs, and the U.S. ambassador to the Ukraine. They were discussing possible intervention in a crisis there, where Russia was successfully muscling its former satellite away from the European Union. During that four-minute cha... Full story
A sudden thaw last week caused flooding around the county, but town, city and county resources quickly sprang into action along with countless volunteers. An isolated, dramatic event was the sudden explosion of water in Colfax, flooding a good part of the business district and snarling Highway 195 traffic. Crews and volunteers worked to lessen the damage by clearing drains and diverting the water as much as possible. Property damage occurred, but it was less than what one might have expected. This emergency was over almost as quickly as it...
