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“When Hard Pressed” I really appreciate the honesty of the Psalms. Folks read them over and over again because they are so true to life - honest, powerful, gutsy, real...No sugarcoating here. The Psalms go to the depth of pain and to the bottom of extreme emotions. Whatever our troubles might be, we can find some encouragement, some consolation - lots of understanding and hand holding -in these 150 writings found near the centerfold of the Bible. The Psalms deal with life uncertainties. Those of us brave and disciplined enough to read them dis... Full story
At Colfax Schools: Monday: Chicken patty, rice, three bean salad, fruit Tuesday: Corn dogs, nachos, green salad, fruit Wednesday: Biscuit and gravy, hash browns, egg patty, fruit, juice Thursday: Turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, green beans, roll, fruit Friday: Grilled cheese, tomato soup, veggies, fruit, sugar cookie At Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, apples, peaches, bread sticks Tuesday: Super nachos, taco meant, tomatoes, salsa, corn, refried beans, cheese sauce, chips, mixed fruit,... Full story
Thursday, Oct. 17 Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Rosalia – 7 p.m. – Picture Books with Katie Wilkes – Learn how to introduce difficult topics and encourage reluctant readers. Friday, Oct. 18 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddler, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Palouse – 1 p.m. – SHIBA Open House – Joyce Leonard will be available to answer questions about Medicare and Medicaid Monday, Oct. 21 Colton & LaCrosse – SHIBA Open House – Joyce Leonar... Full story
Museum benefit set at Oakesdale Oakesdale Historical Society, sponsor of the McCoy Valley Museum, will provide soup, bread and dessert, and bingo, Sunday, Oct. 20, at the museum in Oakesdale. Soup will be served from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Bingo will start at 2 p.m. All ages are invited. Choral Society will perform Encore at St. Boniface Palouse Choral Society will perform “Encore!” at the St. Boniface Catholic Church in Uniontown Saturday, Oct. 20, at 4 p.m. St. Boniface Catholic Church in Uniontown was built in 1904 by German Catholic imm...
8 years ago The Commoner Oct. 19, 1888 The mail lines between Colfax and Palouse City, and Colfax and Lewiston, over which the mails have previously been carried by stage were discontinued. Mails for these points will hereafter go by rail. Charlie Hubbard, the well known young Dry Creek farmer and who cultivates the largest farm in Whitman County, met with a painful accident in this city Saturday evening. While feeding his team which was hitched on a back street, he was kicked on the left leg by one of the horses, breaking the bone of that...
The first fall meeting of Colfax Direct Seeders will be at the Methodist Church meeting room at 7 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 30. The hosted breakfast is sponsored by Columbia Bank of Colfax and will be prepared by the Top Notch Café. Featured speakers will be Dr. Dave Huggins, soil scientist with the USDA Agricultural Research Service of WSU, and Guy Swanson, owner of Exactrix, a farm equipment manufacturer in Spokane. Huggins will share the latest information on fertilizer management technology. Swanson will discuss application of anhydrous... Full story
The Colfax High School homecoming royalty are honored at halftime of the football game against Orofino Friday night. From left to right, Austin Getz, Queen Nicole Sheer, Levi Hardy, junior princess Ashante Erickson, Ray Compton, sophomore princess Amara Huber, Trenton Moore, sophomore princess Olivia Mellor, Thuc Nguyen and freshman princess Parker Warwick.... Full story
Every year an estimated 230,000 women and 2,000 men in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer. About 25 percent will later develop advanced (metastatic) breast cancer. This is when the cancer originating in the breast spreads to other parts of the body — the lungs, liver, lymph nodes or brain. The goal of screening exams for early breast cancer detection is to find cancers before they start to cause symptoms, which allows treatment to begin early and before the cancer has spread. Key actions for early detection include regular breast self e...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Wednesday, Oct. 23: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, Oct. 24: Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 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, Oct. 25: Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 8 a.m.... Full story
Homecoming royalty for the LaCrosse /Washtucna Tigercats pause for photos during half-time ceremonies Friday night at Washtucna. At left are LaCrosse Queen Lindsey Miller and Princess Jessica Guske with King Joey Guske (19) and Prince Tom VanCamp. Washtucna Queen Gail Harder and Princess Britte Harder are at right with King Bo Rice (44) and Prince Douglas McKeen....
Melinda Barlass Ackerman completed her doctorate degree studies in education administration from Walden University last February and participated in the commencement celebration in Minneapolis Aug. 17. Her dissertation was on the relationship between student purpose in life and performance on New Mexico based assessment. The daughter of Tom and Alice Barlass of Colfax, she is a member of the 1992 class of Colfax High School. She received her undergraduate degree in education at Eastern...
Hunters were well fed this weekend and had their choice of where to go for breakfast. Saturday morning hunters and townspeople enjoyed breakfast at the Endicott Food Center. Organizer Jenny Meyer hovered over the stove cooking scrambled eggs and said about 65 hunters and local residents were served Saturday morning. She said money raised from the breakfast goes to the cost of Endicott’s Christmas fireworks. Tony Anderson flipped pancakes and Tia Langston was the self-proclaimed “maple bar que... Full story
Singh-Krause vows at St. Gall Bridget Ann Krause and Harman Jot Singh were married July 6, 2013, at St. Gall Catholic Church in Colton. She is the daughter of Gene and Sylvia Krause of Longview, and he is the son of Paul and Jyoti Singh of Vienna, Va. They chose St. Gall Church in Colton where her parents were married 31 years ago. Bridget graduated from Mark Morris High School in Longview in 2001, Gonzaga University in 2005 with a bachelor of science in biology and received her doctor of...
Windy Tevlin made the transition from Folger’s girl to gourmet espresso lover when she opened her new shop in Garfield. Since she and Tom own Garfield Meats, known locally as the Meat Shop, a coffee shop would naturally be Meet Shop II. She opened her shop to keep her mom busy and give herself something fun to do, but her mom hasn’t arrived yet to help out. Besides coffees, Italian sodas and breakfast breads, the other section of the shop is a thrift shop done with clever decor. It’s already fil...
Area students who qualified for the president’s honor roll for the summer term at WSU are as follows: Albion-Bryan Stafford; Colfax-JakobWells; Endicott-William Knott; Farmington-Garret Pfaff; Oakesdale-Drake Hinkins; Palouse-Emily Boone, Jennie Browse, Rebecca Dewald, Nyna VanHarn and Taylor White; Rosalia-Erin Brown and Zachary St. John; St. John-Erin Schuster; Uniontown-Zoe Holland. To be eligible for the roll, undergraduate students must earn a grade average of 3.75 on a minimum of nine graded hours in a single term or a 3.50 cumulative a... Full story
Dusty Christopher and Justus Heaton arrived Saturday night from Arizona to spend a few days with parents/grandparents, Blake and Carmen Heaton. While here, Justus shot his first deer. Also visiting for the weekend were Jack Heaton with Kirk and Shawna, Morgan, Gage, Chase, Lane and Wade Heaton. Joining the Heaton group was Blake Munson from Tri-cities. Each member of the group got a deer. Ron and Donna Connel, Spokane Valley, were luncheon guests of Dick and Helen Appel recently. Donna is Dick’s sister. Last Saturday, Dick and Helen Appel h... Full story
The Healthy Tekoa Coalition (HTC) will present the first annual Fall Family Carnival Saturday, Oct. 19, from 3-5 p.m. at Tekoa grade school. The carnival will include 17 activity tables with a fish pond, spinning wheel, dolphin ring toss, cupcake walk, bobbing for apples and face-painting. There will also be contests for coloring, costume and bubble gum-blowing. The event is supported by 16 businesses in Tekoa, and is part of HTC’s strategic plan to promote healthy, positive choices in local youth by working together to reduce substance a... Full story
Contests, a Halloween parade and other events will be part of the Rosalia Fall Festival Saturday. The event will be presented by the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce with other groups taking part. A vendor and craft fair will start at Pinewood Cottage at 9 a.m. The craft fair usually brings in 10 to 12 vendors. Entries for the pie baking contest can be delivered to the Texaco Station. After the pies are judged, slices of pie with be offered. Pumpkin painting begins at 10 a.m. on the lot next to Rosalia Coffee. Also at 10, a treasure truck will be... Full story
District 7 Make It With Wool contest participants gathered Oct. 5 in the Public Service Building at Colfax. The contest is coordinated by Helen Appel with assistance from Paula Baldree. For 30 years, Helen has been hosting the contest for this multi-county region. Sidney Appel, Colfax, wearing her teal, window pane plaid skirt and jacket, placed first in the pre-teen division. Shelby Forgey, Anatone, in her purple dress with multi-colored trim and Elly Kunkel, Pullman, in her gray poncho with ka...
If the ground beneath your feet starts shaking and someone hollers “Earthquake!” would you know what to do? Although Eastern Washington is not known for earthquakes, faults are located underground here. A new fault was recently discovered under Spokane, according to Darrell Ruby, Washington State Homeland Security Region 9 Coordinator. “Washington has an earthquake hazard,” Ruby said. “We have about 1,000 earthquakes every year, but only about a half dozen are felt.” Ruby will be in Colfax today (Thursday) at the Local Emergency Planning Co...
Improving local students from Colfax, Palouse and Endicott have earned their schools state recognition. Colfax Junior-Senior High School (grades 7-8), along with Endicott/St. John Elementary and Middle School and Palouse Elementary have been named as 2013 Schools of Distinction. Outstanding improvement in student achievement in reading and math over five years led to the honor for 99 schools in Washington, all receiving this year’s School of Distinction Award from The Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE), the Association of Educational S...
Real estate sales Samuel L. Brown, representative of the estate of Lester Roy Brown, Pullman, to Shirley L. Adams, Pullman, condominium on SE Quail Ridge Drive, $122,000, Oct. 7. Crop Production Services, Spokane, to David Jones, Boardman, Ore., 1980 12x40 mobile home in Rosalia, $1,500, Oct. 7. Itani Quality Homes, Inc., Pullman, to Richard M. and Collette D. Edge, Pullman, house on Alene Court, $378,500, Oct. 8. Emmet P. and Kathleen M. Fiske, Pullman to Terri L. Rock, Pullman, house on SE Spring Street in Pullman, $271,000, Oct. 8. Ollie L....
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. This past Christmas Eve, I was proud to see my 10-year-old niece and 4-year-old nephew participate in their church’s annual production of the story of Jesus, Mary, Joseph and Batman. My nephew, you see, has Batman body armor that he refuses to take off, even in the bathtub. I don’t blame him: It gives his little-boy body the rippled abs of a dancer at Chippendales. My niece has long coveted the role of Mary, but the appointment is strictly political. Her parents just haven...
Four contractor bids for construction of the Hinrich’s Trading Company’s Port of Wilma building came in higher than expected, port manager Joe Poire reported to port commissioners last Thursday, Oct. 10. The low bid was $1,063,497 and the high bid $1,398,900. The engineer’s estimate for the building cost was between $550,000 and $650,000. In July, port commissioners and Hinrichs signed a 20-year site lease for Hinrichs to locate a warehouse at the Port of Wilma. Hinrichs will use the 18,000-square-foot building to store, process and ship garban...
Josie Freier, 15, one of two University High School students who were fatally injured in an accident Saturday night in Spokane Valley, was the granddaughter of Bob and Suzanne Lonn of Wilbur. The Lonn family at one time operated a welding shop along N. Main in Colfax. She was the daughter of Kristin and Rick Freier of Spokane Valley. Known as Jo Jo, the Freier girl and the other victim of the accident, McKenzie Mott, also 15, were friends and played soccer together. The Spokesman Review Oct. 10 featured a picture of Rick Freier, and a call for...
