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Two local officers graduated Feb. 28 from the Washington Criminal Justice Training Center at Burien. Deputy Michael Jordan, who has been a reserve deputy here, and Officer Chris Olin of the Colfax Police Department received their degrees after completing the 20-week basic training course. Sheriff Brett Myers and three other members of the department attended the ceremony for the county. Chief Bill Hickman and Officer Bryce Nebe attended for the Colfax Police Department. Nebe will be Olin’s field training officer. Olin topped the marksmanship p... Full story
Diane Harp, Tekoa’s new librarian, reports more than $50 in non-perishable food was added to the end of the month food distribution in Tekoa. Residents are encouraged to visit the library and see the new At-A-Glance activities calendar for a list of events happening in Tekoa and area libraries. Tekoa Library hours are Tuesday and Wednesday from 1:30–6 p.m. and Thursday from 10 to 4.... Full story
A basic software and Internet computing class is scheduled from 10 a.m. to noon on both March 13 and 27. Library staffers will assist attendees with basic skills including Microsoft Office products and Windows, Web email and Internet Searching. Wireless capability is available for those wanting to use their own laptop computer. Registration is not required for this class, which will be in the Norma McGregor Community Room. For more information about this program contact James Morasch or Don Appel at the library. (don@whitco....
Libey granddaughter A girl, Reese Jaelyn, was born Friday, March 2, at Pullman Regional Hospital to Patrick and Dawn Libey of Moscow. Weighing nine pounds, two ounces, she joins a sister, Ryan, 2. Paternal grandparents are Gary and Trudi Libey of Colfax and Rob and Melanie Heacock of Spokane. Maternal grandparents are Bob and Pam Stangland of Spokane....
Paul Kimmel and Avista were recently named Library Supporter of the Month for helping fund renovations of the Colfax and Endicott Branch Libraries, funding library service in Malden when they had none, providing new lighting at the Oakesdale Library, and supporting Summer Reading program countywide. Youths in grades 1-4 are invited to celebrate March Madness at the Colfax Library next Thursday, March 15 from 3:30-4:30 p.m. Kids may ride bus #5 with a note from parents to enjoy stories, crafts, games and more. A county wide teen dance will be... Full story
A college information night will be Wednesday, March 14 at 6 p.m. in the Norma McGregor Room at the Colfax Library hosted by the Pullman campus of Community Colleges of Spokane. Topics will include general college planning and financial aid strategies along with information specific about CCS. Whitman County Teen Librarian Chelsea Leachman will be available after the session to answer questions related to the library’s electronic products and resources....
A bingo night, lasagna dinner and silent auction will be at the Palouse Community Center Saturday, March 10 to raise funds for the new center. It will start with dinner at 6 p.m. Admission is $8. The silent auction of a variety of items also begins at six. Bingo, sponsored by the Palouse Lions Club, will be from 7 to 9....
Palouse Conservation District’s annual Whitman County Envirothon competition will be April 26 at Klemgard County Park. It is open to ninth-twelfth graders and is an opportunity for students to extend their knowledge of environmental science and natural resource management.The current issue topic for this year is Salt and Freshwater Estuaries. The one-day event, from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., encourages students to exercise their problem solving skills as they rotate through five stations including soils/land use, aquatic ecology, forestry, w... Full story
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Wednesday, March 28: Palouse Federated Church, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, March 29: Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; LaCrosse, 111 N. Main, 8 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 30: Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 8 a.m. to...
• Use a muffin pan to make cookie cups for ice cream or fruit. Just flip your muffin pan over, and press dough over the upturned wells. It will puff up a little, but once it settles will make very nice bowls. I do this with pizza dough as well. Prebake for a few minutes to form the bowl, then fill with ingredients and complete baking. • If you can put a tension rod in the cabinet under your sink, you can use it to hang spray bottles for extra storage. It’s amazing how much space it clears up, and it’s easy to find the bottle you need. • Trave... Full story
Chelsey Leinweber of Colfax and Buggy Startin of LaCrosse exchanged wedding vows Sept. 24, 2011, in an evening ceremony in the First Baptist Church family center in Colfax. The bride is the daughter of Mindy Stout of Colfax and Joe and Jill Leinweber of Steptoe. Startin is the son of Eric and Lois Startin of LaCrosse. White gossamer ceiling drapes and chair covers and bows decorated the room. Candles and white rose petals lined the royal blue aisle runner. Lynn Nelson of Colfax officiated. Given in marriage by her father, the bride wore a...
Lacrosse The 12 members of the Startin family helped Gayle celebrate his 80th birthday in Colfax at Eddy’s Restaurant Sunday. Those present were: Chad and Nancy Startin, Diamond, Evan Startin and Erin Hopkins, Colfax, Tyler Startin, Dusty, Meghan Startin, Onecho, Chelsey and Buggy Startin and Riley Hennigar Colfax, Jill Startin, Spokane, Eric and Lois Startin and Gayle and Nancy of Lacrosse. The Jerry Townsend family donated the remaining T-shirts from his fundraiser to the fifth-sixth grade class. They planted trees with the soil conservation...
Most little girls in the fourth grade are interested in dolls and playing. Tara Huntley wanted to be a master chef and baker and was happiest when cooking with her mom. “In the fourth grade we sold magazines for school. My mom would let us pick one magazine to purchase,” Tara said. “I picked Bon Appetit and have been a subscriber ever since.” Tara said she kept every issue and had many boxes filled with back issues. Then, two years ago, her collection was damaged by water. She sorted through the magazines and now only keeps November and Dec...
Week of March 12 - 16 At Colfax Schools: Daily items offered at Colfax High School include salad bar, chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, deli sandwiches, vegetarian options, fresh & canned fruit, fresh vegetables, oven fries, yogurt, cottage cheese, bagels and juice. Monday: Chicken Alfredo, vegetable, fruit, bread stick Tuesday: Spikes Pizza, salad, pineapple, sherbet Wednesday: BBQ chicken/bun, tater tots, salad, fruit Thursday: Teriyaki chicken rice bowl, vegetable, fruit, fortune cookie Friday: Corn dogs, mini nachos, fruit, rainbow cake JES... Full story
The History Channel • On March 23, 1836, in hopes of keeping pace with the furious march of technology, the U.S. Mint unveils its first steam-powered press. The new-fangled contraption helped crank out coins more efficiently. • On March 25, 1911, at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York’s Lower East Side, a fire quickly engulfs the factory and claims 146 lives, mostly young women. Because management had locked the exit doors, many of the garment workers either expired from asphyxiation or leapt from windows — a fatal, 10-story fall. T...
Lamont A Lamont Library town meeting will be at the Lamont Community building tonight, Thursday, March 8, at 7 p.m. Allen and Diane Cook drove to Ritzville to watch grandson, Logan Miller, Kahlotus, participate in an FFA trap shoot at the Ritzville gun club. Sandi Miller, Kahlotus, was an overnight guest of her parents, Allen and Diane Cook. She attended a class in Spokane Valley Friday. Don and Sherrill Nelson attended the Christian youth theater performance of “Oklahoma” Sunday at the Spokane Bing Crosby Theater. Their 10 year old gra... Full story
Four generations of Rosemary Henrickson’s (center) family participated in the Republican caucus for the Oakesdale precinct during the party’s pooled caucus Saturday in the Public Service Building on Main in Colfax. Pictured are, from left, Henrickson’s daughter, Cotton Crider, great-granddaughter Courtenay Perry, Henrickson, and granddaughters Heidi Perry and Katie Hockett. Three more of Henrickson’s great-granddaughters - Karen, 4, Megan, 2, and Lauren, two-and-a-half months, all chlidren of Renee and Carl Crider also attended the caucus,... Full story
A few warm-ups from a clarinet rip out from behind the side curtains before he steps up on the stage at the Student Union Building ballroom on the first day of the UI Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival. His whole manner is easy-going. On the stage he looks like a senior faculty member, beloved by students past and present. Paquito D’Rivera makes a few comments about his English skills and begins to charm the small crowd at the afternoon jazz clinic. He is a native of Cuba. “Ask me about anything. Maybe about Romney,”he jokes. That night he was the f...
An informational meeting on the North Palouse River watershed was conducted by the Palouse Conservation District Monday night. Ray Ledgerwood, program facilitator for Washington State Conservation Commission and Mary Rosen, district manager for Palouse Conservation District, spoke to a crowd of about two dozen. They presented an overview of what the Washington state Department of Ecology can and cannot do. Standing in the main room of the new Palouse Community Center, Ledgerwood began the evenin...
Lines stretched, plates were served, retrieved, washed and served again while people kept coming to the 58th Annual Uniontown Sausage Feed on Sunday. Volunteers served sausage, sauerkraut, mashed potatoes, green beans, rolls, applesauce and pie from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Proceeds go to the maintenance fund for the community building....
Adversity often brings out the best in people. We find ways to pitch in and solve problems that government can’t. Since the recession began, non-profit organizations have seen a big increase in volunteerism, and as state and local governments are forced to slash public services, volunteers are coming forward to pick up the slack. For example, after the City of Las Vegas laid off half of its park maintenance staff, neighbors put together volunteer work crews to pick up trash, wash picnic benches, trim shrubs and paint the curbs. The City of O...
Testament Our office was asked to host a team for the State B tournament in Spokane this year. Since I was born and raised in Whitman County, it was decided it would be a good idea. Being our first year doing this, we had no clue of what to expect. We had a great pleasure of hosting the Colton girls. The coaches and girls were incredible. The parents of each girl should be proud of their representation. I’ve never encountered better young people in my life. What a wonderful testament to the village that raised these girls. L.R. Rusty M...
The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Martin Dempsey, thinks that Iran is a “rational actor.” He is indisputably correct. Tehran couldn’t have made itself into the world’s foremost exporter of terror and extended its tentacles throughout the Middle East without resorting to rational calculation. That’s obvious. What Dempsey is implying, though, is that a regime capable of such calculation can necessarily be deterred if it gets a nuclear weapon. That’s an unsupportable leap. If the Soviets, the famous “evil empire” bristling with thous...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. When I was at the absolute pinnacle of my professional career, I was the flower chairman for the Miss Kansas-Miss Missouri Beauty Pageant. I was 14 years old. I had other friends with jobs, and maybe even jobs with titles like “assistant manager,” but I’d never even met a “chairman.” In my mind, I’d been vaulted to the top of the executive food chain - my next promotion would be “emperor.” I landed this plum yet critical position because my best friend’s fath... Full story
Two Whitman County basketball teams are state champions. The Colton girls won their fourth consecutive championship, and the Colfax boys took home their first B state championship since 1979. Both teams deserve congratulations. The Colton girls basketball team did it again. They are state champions for the fourth straight time—an unprecedented four-peat in the Bs. This year the team was undefeated—not only undefeated in post-season play, but undefeated throughout the season. Their season record ended at an impressive 26-0. Colton clinched the...
