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Stations of the Cross The Stations of the Cross will be set up at Pullman’s Simpson United Methodist Church, 325 N.E. Maple St., on Good Friday, March 29. Visitors are welcome anytime between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m. The Rev. Todd Scranton will be present in the sanctuary from noon to 6 p.m. to walk with anyone who wants a guide through the stations. An art exhibit inspired by the Easter season, “A World of Contrasts” by Sharon Bogen, will be open on Good Friday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Easter worship services, Sunday, March 31, will be at 10:30 a.m....
Officials at Community Colleges of Spokane’s Institute for Extended Learning, which offers GED classes and other adult education programs throughout Eastern Washington, urge GED students, new and old, to complete their GED testing before December, 2013. A new set of tests is being introduced in January, and all old test scores will expire, according to Kyla Bates, IEL’s chief GED examiner. Students who have partially completed testing will lose those test scores. The GED test contains five parts that can be taken separately, but must all be...
The Inland Northwest Blood Center will conduct a blood drive in Rosalia April 15 from noon to 2 p.m. at Rosalia High School. Contact Mike Day or sign up on line: www.inbcsaves.org...
Thursday, Mar 28 Colfax, LaCrosse & Tekoa – Storytime - Fun stories, finger plays, rhymes, songs and crafts every Thursday. Check the calendar for times and themes. Friday, Mar 29 Colfax & Tekoa – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for preschoolers and parents every Friday. Sunday, Mar 30 All branches closed for Easter. Monday, April 1 Oakesdale – 3:30 p.m. – Teen Art Program – Join Teen Librarian Chelsea as she leads teens in discovery of art using watercolor pencils. Tuesday, April 2 St. John – Noon to 2 p.m. – Piz...
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Soup du Jour, house salad, apricot glazed chicken, rice pilaf & green beans, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Homemade soup, house salad and dressing, chicken salad sandwich, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — Soup du Jour, house salad, apricot glazed chicken, rice pilaf & green beans, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monda...
Just a few days remain to sign up for beginning bridge classes from Jane Aune. Classes will be each Tuesday and Thursday in April from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at Jennings Elementary in Colfax. These free classes are open to anyone interested in learning the basic skills and etiquette of the game. These classes are sponsored by Whitman County Library while use of the Jennings Elementary facility and class materials are being provided with funding from the Institute for Museums and Library Services grant titled Transforming Life after 50 which was...
Lacrosse The National Honor Society students are sponsoring the Jump Rope for Heart fund raiser. If any community member would like to donate to the American Heart Association they can contact the school and donate. The students will be jumping Friday morning....
Ruth Henderson of Colfax celebrated her 106th birthday with a dinner at Eddy’s Restaurant with family, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Mrs. Henderson was born March 2, 1907, to Asahel and Myra Cook Baldwin on the family farm. She is a lifelong resident of Whitman County. Standing behind her are her children, left to right, Pat Bailey, Don and Joe Henderson, all of Colfax....
Endicott Monday afternoon Fran Cutler, Lorena Mattley, Ila Stuart, Pat Byers and Anne Lowe prepared Easter Eggs for the Easter Egg hunt which will be at Trinity Lutheran Church Saturday beginning at 10 a.m Trinity Lutheran Church will again host a free soup and bread supper Wednesday, April 3, at 5:30 p.m. Jamie Hughes, a member of the Endicott Gun Club, won ladies runner-up in the singles championship at the Camas Prarie Trap Shoot last weekend in Walla Walla. Spring has arrived in Endicott. We have crocus and daffodils blooming, lawn mowers...
Colfax’s Brianna Reynolds, 18, will be featured for the Colfax Library’s “Meet the Artist” series April 4 at 7 p.m. Reynolds works in mediums including graphite pencil, acrylic paint, watercolor, Australian Aborigine painting, smoke painting, collage and printmaking. She said that a recent trip to China has influenced her art, citing what she learned there about color, patterns and texture. Reynolds began taking art lessons when she was four years old. At 14, she started lessons under local artist Tim Ely. Reynolds graduated last year from ho...
Meet Jane Aune, Colfax Whitman County Library is coordinating a number of classes for people on a variety of interesting topics. If your topic of interest is bridge, Jane Aune has a class for you. Jane will be teaching bridge lessons this spring, with the first session scheduled for Tuesday, April 2, from 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Jennings Elementary School. Come to the back door of JES adjacent to the new gymnasium. Sign up for bridge classes by calling Whitman County Library at 397-4366 or Jane Aune at 397-4428. This class is designed for both...
The Colton – Uniontown Distinguished Young Woman competition will be Saturday, March 30, at 7 p.m. in the Colton School small gym. Heather Young, Jenna Moser, Hannah Kramer, Jackie Warner and Taylor Graham will take the stage in Hawaiian grass skirts and leis. Theme will be “Tropical Escape.” The competition offers $1,000 in shared scholarships. The title winner will advance on to the state competition. The first runner-up will be in the Palouse Empire Fair royalty competition. This year’s program is chaired and choreographed by Jane Ann Nag...
The Garfield-Palouse High School Knowledge Bowl team went to Arlington for the state meet March 23 and placed fifth. A total of 102 teams from all school classifications competed at the state meet at Arlington High School. After five 50-question preliminary rounds, the team of Wyatt Mitchell, Landen Morton, Gabe Cocking, Hunter Woltering and Kevin Knauff held sixth-place, advancing them to the 1B finals. The prelimaries included four oral rounds and one written. “The goal is to ring in before t...
Katie Largent, daughter of Gary and Lisa Largent, won the Colfax Distinguished Young Woman title Saturday night at the Colfax High School auditorium. Katie won four of the competition events in the DYW show. She was among 11 Colfax competitors named this year in the competition that had “The Incredibles” as the theme. Jacee Thompson, daughter of Keith and Bridget Thompson, was named first runner-up and will represent Colfax in the Miss Palouse Empire Fair competition next September. Nicole Sheer, daughter of Tom and Nancy Sheer, was named thi...
The 2013-14 Directory of Elected and Appointed Officials, developed by the Pullman League of Women Voters, is now available. The directory lists contact information for all elected officials and appointed department heads in Pullman, the boards and commissions of the city and of Whitman County, as well as those elected to county offices, members of the legislature and Congress. Costs of printing the directory were underwritten by AmericanWest Bank. Directories are available at Whitman County branches of the bank, Neill Public Library in...
Colfax building permits Maynard Cutler, 108 E. Rock Street, reside residence, $3,400, March 19. Tom Kneeshaw, 108 W. Fairview, plumb new addition, March 25. St. Patrick’s Church, 1018 S. Main, two gas furnaces, March 26. County building permits Port of Whitman, Colfax, water heater, gas furnace, $3,746, March 19. Pat and Heidi Dowling, Steptoe, garage, $9,500, March 20. Doug Tyler, Pullman, re-roof, $6,500, March 22. Dave Harlow, Pullman, tank set, $325, March 26. Walt Zakarison, Pullman, windows and siding, $13,300, March 26. Marriage a...
Community Colleges of Spokane’s Pullman center will host a college information night for prospective students and their families at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 3. The center is located at 115 N.W. State St., suite 305A. All aspects of applying to and attending a Community Colleges of Spokane campus or education center will be covered. Community Colleges of Spokane serves a 12,000-square-mile service area in Eastern Washington, with Spokane Community College and Spokane Falls Community College and six rural education centers that are managed t...
Eight Simple Rules for Marrying My Daughter Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008. Having a teenage daughter is a bit like living in the middle of a zombie movie. There will be a knock on the door, and when you open it you’ll find standing there a smelly, unwashed, slack-faced male wearing ill-fitting clothes and wanting to take your daughter on a date. When she appears from where she has been shoveling on her makeup, he’ll regard her with that zombie-hunger in his eyes. Your natural impulse is to get rid of th...
Mary Darlene Campbell A memorial service for Mary Darlene Campbell, 76, Garfield, was March 20, at Garfield Community Church followed by a graveside service Monday at Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Grand Junction, Colo. She died Saturday, March 16, 2013, at her home in Garfield. Born July 1, 1936, to Walter and Mary Elizabeth (Clawson) Malleis, she graduated from Grand Junction High School and was attending Mesa State College until she met and married Kenneth L. Elliott April 6, 1956. She loved her crafts, cooking, quilting, knitting and...
A memorial service for Marjorie E. Merrill, 88, will be today, Thursday, March 28, at 11 a.m. at the Church of the Nazarene in Princeton, Idaho. Pastor Bob Lambert will officiate. A private family urn burial will be at the Freeze Cemetery at a later date. Mrs. Merrill died Thursday morning, March 21, 2013, at Gritman Medical Center in Moscow. Born March 25, 1924, at Boone, Iowa to Forrest H. and Eunice R. (McCracken) Jones, she attended schools in Boone and graduated from high school there in 1942. She worked for the next three months in a...
Honoring Booth Gardner The tributes to former Gov. Booth Gardner, who died March 15 at the age of 76, remind us of a better time. Throughout his political career, Booth was known for his respectful demeanor, good humor and dedication to consensus. That is in stark contrast to today’s reality. Now, partisan rancor is the norm in a high-stakes blood sport where the only goal is political advantage, and people with opposing views are assailed as enemies. This scorched earth mentality has become so pervasive, people assume it’s the nature of pol...
The Beetle and the Pipeline When progressives talk of government, it is in an alluring can-do spirit. Making the case for more spending, President Barack Obama invokes the 19th century as a heroic age that built government-supported railroads. MSNBC hosts pose in front of monumental 20th-century public-works projects and speak of what all of us can do together. This is all well and good as nostalgia, but is utterly detached from the spirit and the practices of 21st-century government. We don’t excel at building things. We excel at studying thin...
Consider Cyprus. The country, part of the European Union, is bankrupt. Its banks are failing. In fact, they have been closed for over a week. The second largest has been shut down forever. Although a small country, Cyprus became a haven for international money. The banking sector itself exceeded the rest of the country’s economy many times over. Banks in Cyprus held billions in international money. Some was legal money, stashed there to avoid taxes and instability in other countries. Some may be illegal, sent to Cyprus for laundering. Also usin...
These reports are from the previous four 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. CITY PLANS LITTER PICKUP Colfax city crews will pick up yard waste during the April 8-14 community cleanup week. The collection will follow the fall leaf bag format requesting residents to use paper bags and put them out along the curb for collection day. Bags should weigh under 50 pounds and can contain grass clippings, leaves and branches...
Colfax seniors who were honored at the basketball banquet Tuesday, from the left, are Bryce Kramlich, coaches’ award; Brandon Gfeller, most valuable teammate; Skylar Simonson, most improved; Brady Ellis, most inspirational, and John Mellor, coaches’ award. Gfeller receives ball marked 1,593, the total points he scored in four years with the Colfax varsity Colfax put an official end to their title-game run basketball season Tuesday night by honoring five graduating seniors. Each of the five players at the head table also went home with a spe...
