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NOTICE OF ROAD CLOSURE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the following Whitman County roads/bridges will be closed to vehicular traffic for the 2011 Snake River Canyon Half Marathon, pursuant to R.C.W. 47.48.01, for the time periods specified below: County Road No. 9000, the Wawawai Road from the Wawawai Park to Steptoe Canyon Road on March 3, 2012 from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS of Whitman County, Washington. GIVEN under my hand this 22nd day of February, 2012. W. Mark Storey, P.E., County Engineer 2012-85-9/1... Full story
Computer-Free Video Calling Helps Seniors Stay Connected Dear Savvy Senior Can you recommend any easy-to-use products for video calling? I live in a different state from my mother, who’s now 78, and would like to see her more often. But mom doesn’t have a computer or a smartphone for video chatting and she’s intimidated with technology. Living Afar Dear Living, Video calling is a wonderful way to stay connected and get that important face-to-face time with your mom when you can’t be there. Here are some good video calling products to conside... Full story
Garfield middle school students explored the intersection of art and science last quarter with a bridge-building project. The elective engineering class, taught by Phil Weagraff, began with students studying the various arenas of engineering, from electrical and mechanical to structural, biological and marine. Then they learned about forms of bridges and set out to design their own, using balsa wood or spaghetti noodles. “I encouraged them to make it as aesthetically pleasing as possible, w...
Rosalia Rosalia Fire Department responded to two fires Sunday and managed to douse the blazes in time to halt extensive damage. An early morning fire damaged the front of the Brass Rail Tavern. Chief Bill Tensfeld said the driver of a Spokesman Review delivery truck noticed smoke in front of the tavern when he made a delivery at about 3 a.m. and called 911. The fire started in one of the flower boxes which were loaded with peat moss. It spread to plywood siding on the front of the building, but... Full story
8 years ago March 4, 1887 Viewing the surroundings through a window last Friday, a little 3 year old girl living in the south end chanced to see a spot of earth laid bare by the chinook and immediately saluted it with, “Why, hello mud!” Many an older person felt the same way. Like meeting a long-lost friend. The farm residence of Mrs. J.D. Mix at Uniotown was destroyed by fire last Saturday. No one was home, but Mrs. Mix lost her valuable wardrobe, household furniture, a Steinway piano, Judge Mix’s law library and a poodle dog. All fell...
Members of the Colfax High School Knowledge Bowl team won the district 2B competition Friday at Whitworth University to qualify for the state tournament March 17 at Spokane Falls Community College. The team also placed fourth in regional competition among over 30 schools in all divisions. Team members, from the left, are Kurt Moore, Christopher Appel, Brent Conrad, Ryan Christopherson, Justin Williams and Connor Appel. They were coached by Christopher Clausen....
MARRIAGE LICENSES Jason C. Byrd, 30, and Rachelle L. Greenwood, 30, both Pullman, Feb. 23. Zhe Zhang, 26, and Jink Ke, 27, both Pullman, Feb. 21. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Bernie Schultheis, Colton, pole building, $54,000, Feb. 22. Golden State Towers, Pullman, antenna, $12,000, Feb. 22. Randy Bennett, Colton, heat pump, $10,500, Feb. 17. Cameron Blank, Oakesdale, basement remodel, $5,000, Feb. 17. Steve Doty, Colfax, new home, $65,280, Feb. 15. COLFAX BUILDING PERMIT Jones Truck and Implement, two buildings for equipment parking, 425...
* If you like your coffee fresh and strong but not so hot, make a small tray of ice cubes out of coffee to cool your morning cup. * “Always dust from the top down. My mom taught me that, since the dust falls and then you vacuum it up at the end. Also, don’t use too much furniture polish, since using a lot can actually attract dust.” — B.O. in Pennsylvania * “Keep leftover slices of good meat and veggies in zipper-lock plastic baggies and freeze. When you make canned soups, just add the appropriate bits from your baggie. It really bulks up... Full story
—Mike Milano photo Garfield/Palouse Jazz Band, under the direction of Ruth Vertrees, performed Thursday at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival in Moscow. In front, from the left, are Mason Bates, Tuli O’Neill, David Milano, Dash Estes and Isaac Nelson. In back, from the left, are Alex Keeney, Paul Davis, Emily Keeney, Bethany Loomis, Kent Nelson and Sarah Bailey. The GP band played in the junior high combo division. Alex Keeney, a GP grad, and Davis, WSU student, were allowed to provide a rhythm section for the young band under rules for jun...
Lacrosse Members of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity at WSU cleaned out the basement of the LaCrosse market building Feb. 18 They loaded scrap iron on a trailer and four truckloads of scrap wood. Randy Myklebust, a grandson of T. A. Myklebust who operated the store at LaCrosse for many years, organized the work party. Randy currently lives in Clarkston with his wife, Barb, and daughter, Molly, who were also at the work session. Fifteen Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity members from Washington State University joined local volunteers to clear debris...
Patient Safety Awareness Week is an annual education and awareness campaign for health care safety led by the National Patient Safety Foundation. The theme for March 4-10, 2012, is Be Aware for Safe Care, reflecting the need to involve everyone–from patients to providers–in ensuring the safety of our health care process. During your hospital visit, our medical providers and hospital staff do everything they can to insure your safety and well-being. Don’t forget that you, too, are an important member of the team. Informed and involved patie...
Special The new Palouse Community Center is special not only because its structure is pleasing, but also because community need, community volunteerism, community sacrifice and community generosity made it real. All who flipped burgers, haunted Palouse, baked pies, sold crafts, cleaned up, sorted rummage, served on committees, donated money or services deserve credit. The Palouse Arts Council, Palouse School and Palouse Federated Church also deserve praise for filling the void while the Community Center was incubating. Tim and Colleen Boone, Pa...
It wasn’t as bad as they figured. Whitman County’s various departments spent $102,356 more than they received in revenue in the finalized version of the 2011 books. Kind of. Financial Adminstrator David Ledbetter gave department leaders final figures at a meeting last week. Those figures showed departments within the county’s current expense budget spent $11,761,022 while revenues generated $11,658,666. Both totals were nearly $700,000 below the figures projected in the budget. The deficit reflects a marked improvement from the $330,000 defic... Full story
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. The Home of the Future, I’ve been told, will have all of its appliances wired to the Internet, giving them what they’ve always needed, which is the ability to find pictures of female dishwashers. If you’re at work, you can log on to your home account and look inside your refrigerator, though if you’re a man you still won’t be able to find the mayonnaise without a woman’s help. You’ll get phone calls like this: “Hello, this is your oven. The microwave is maki...
All local funding measures received official approval after Whitman County’s canvass board certified the Feb. 14 election results Tuesday morning. School funding measures for Colfax, Colton, Endicott, Oakesdale, Pullman, Rosalia, St. John, Steptoe and Tekoa all received final tallies well above the 50 percent approval mark. The town of Rosalia’s street levy request also passed with 65 percent approval, over the 60 percent required passage rate. Final count included 8,046 ballots of the 17,001 sent out to voters for a 47 percent turnout. The...
Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek reported Tuesday night that city and Whitman County Library officials are working up a new contract for the long-standing agreement which calls for the city to pay for part of the upkeep of the library’s headquarters building in Colfax. Vanek reported to the city council that neither the city nor the library can locate a copy of the original agreement. He said a search for the original contract turned up letters and other material, but not the original agreement. Problems with the agreement surfaced at the Dec. 19 city c...
Matthew Scholz, a graduate music student at the University of Idaho, performed in the UI Jazz Festival concert Feb. 22 in the Student Union Building ball- room. Scholz, who performed a concert in Colfax last year after his senior recital in Moscow, played with the UI Jazz One band which provided big band accompaniment. Scholz last year performed with the UI Jazz One band when it accompanied Jimmy Heath in the opening concert of the four-day festival. Scholz is a member of the 2006 class at Colfax High School.... Full story
What’s that old saying? “One step forward, two steps back.” Just as our economy is starting to move again, rising gas prices threaten to put the brakes on the recovery. Gasoline is at the highest price ever for this time of year. AAA reports the average price in Washington on Feb. 22 was $3.68 a gallon. That’s up 14 cents in a week and 21 cents in a month. Analysts say gas could hit $4.25 a gallon or higher by late April. Rising prices for gasoline, diesel and jet fuel increase the cost of virtually everything because millions of product...
WELL, Black History Month is almost over and I’ve been thinking about who to offer as a role model for young blacks, leaving Barack Hussein Obama Out of it because I know of somebody better. I give you Sam and Marion Smith and the Smith kids of Seattle. I knew Sam Smith when he was in the legislature in the House in the 1960s, which he left to become a Seattle city councilman in 1967 I learned all about him from his son, Ron, when we were airplane seatmates returning from the Democratic national convention in Atlanta.. He had gone to the c...
John Huntsman was one of the many Republican candidates for the party’s presidential nomination. He is no longer running. He quit after a disappointing finish in New Hampshire. The man realized he didn’t have what it takes to get the nomination. For one thing, he recently said that he was not willing to make some of the deals he was asked to make. He is soft spoken and thoughtful. His experience ranges from being a two-term governor to the United States Ambassador to China under President Obama. Unlike the other Republican hopefuls, he did not...
Bernice Bippes The funeral for Bernice (Bunny) Bippes, 94, long time resident of Tekoa, and a leader in the Republican party, was Wednesday, Feb. 29, at the Tekoa Community Church with the Rev. Mark Mewhinney officiating. Burial followed at Goldenrod Cemetery in Tekoa. She died Feb. 23, 2012, at Vista, Calif. In November of 2011, she traveled to Oceanside, Calif., to try living there during the winter, and a fall in December hospitalized her with a concussion. Born Feb. 20, 1918, at Pleasant Grove, Utah, to Leonard and Sylvia Wadley Wimmer, she... Full story
Whitman County Historical Society is planning another Ice Age Flood tour May 19-20. The tour travels to the locations of Ancient Glacial Lake Missoula and its outlet through Idaho and the Spokane Valley. The trip will include bus transportation, lunch for both days, and overnight accommodations in Missoula. Features of the trip are backwater flood deposits along the Clearwater River, the Bitteroot Arm of Glacial Lake Missoula, wave cut beaches above Missoula, sandbars high above today’s water level along the Clark Fork River, Lake Pend O...
In an effort to improve library products, programs and services, Whitman County Library is conducting a survey of all 8,700 households within the library district. The survey was recently mailed with the library district’s annual newsletter and is also available online. Anyone completing the survey has the opportunity to enter a drawing to win a new Kindle Fire sponsored by the Friends of the Library. Because mailing of the newsletter was delayed, the survey deadline has been extended. Hard-copy surveys are now due by March 2 while the o... Full story
The 58th annual Uniontown Sausage Feed will be Sunday, March 4, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sausage, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, apple sauce and pie will be served. Admission will be $12 for adults, $8 for children 6 to 12 and $2 for children under 6. Take-out meals will be available. A free concert by the Auf Gehts German band at the Dahmen Barn will be from 1 to 3 p.m. The Uniontown Sausage Feed is put on by community volunteers with proceeds supporting maintenance of the community building.... Full story
Local teens will be tuning in at the library for the annual Teen Tech Week March 4-10, 2012. Teen Tech Week encourages teens to take advantage of the technology at libraries for education and recreation, and to recognize that librarians are qualified, trusted professionals who can help them achieve greater digital literacy. Teens can post a comment on the new teen blog March 4-10 by visiting, http://wclteens.blogspot. com for a chance to win free admission to the upcoming WCL/4-H teen dance March 16....
