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Ten residents of the St. John area have already taken advantage of a variety of instruction through the Whitman County Library’s WORC programs. The grant funding will provide additional Friday hours at the St. John Library. Let librarian Clancy Pool know of computer time needs for job searching. New Friday hours, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., will continue through June 11. WORC programs are made possible through a grant from the Office of the Secretary of State, Washington State Library as a part of the Renew Washington Project which is funded by the B...
WHMC welcomes new caregivers Pamela Crowley, RN has joined the inpatient unit. She earned her bachelors degree in nursing from Seattle University last year. Pam enjoys cooking, reading, hiking and playing the piano. Brandy Dawson, RN will be working part-time on the inpatient unit. She graduated from CHS and Spokane Community College. Her husband is also a nurse who flies with MedStar. Brandy enjoys scrapbooking, boating, camping and volunteering. Kayla Larson is a Certified Nursing Assistant. She is a graduate of Potlatch High School and is...
Kay Davis Andersen, Clarkston High School teacher, has been selected by the Washington Association of Student councils as the Washington State High School Advisor of the Year. She is the daughter of Harry and Irma Davis of St. John. As ASB advisor, she was recognized for touching the lives of students, staff and parents. Additionally, through her active involvement at state and local levels, she has provided leadership opportunities for thousands of students and advisors throughout Washington. Kay has taught at Clarkston High School for 30...
Linda Lea Dailey Linda Lea Dailey, 69, of Sierra Vista, Ariz., died March 23, 2010, at the Sierra Vista Regional Health Center from complications from leukemia. Interment will be at a later date at the Freeze Cemetery near Potlatch, Idaho. Born in Spokane, Oct. 27, 1940, to Verna and Willis Dawson, she was raised in Rosalia and graduated from Rosalia High School. Linda received an education degree from Washington State College in 1962 and after teaching for other schools she became a high school teacher at Palouse. She and Richard Dailey were m...
James A. Maley, son of Shawnda and Graig Maley of Thornton, has received a $5,000 access and opportunity scholarship from Washington State University. Maley, who will graduate from Rosalia High School this spring, plans to study physical therapy at WSU. This scholarship is awarded to incoming freshmen with outstanding high school grades. Students are able to renew the scholarship for four years....
Fifth teen dance set Friday at fairground The fifth annual county teen dance will be Friday, April 9, from 8 to 11:30 p.m. at the Palouse Empire Fairground. The $5 admission fee will help fund the programs of 4H and Whitman County Library, including the Teen Advisory Board scholarship program which provide $25 to board members with two advisors being drawn for larger scholarships. Last year, 300 teens attended the dance. DJ Ronnie Blackwood of Rock 94.5, ZZU 92.9 and Wired 96.9 will be back to play the dancing tunes while providing lots of...
Oakesdale Orders for Oakesdale birthday community calendars are being taken by Brenda McFarling at the school until April 15. Changes should also be submitted. Bridge Club was hosted by Patty Johnson at the Oakesdale museum last week. Winning high prize was Donna Fisher, second June Crow, traveling Marvel Ebert and bingo Gretchen Peringer. Next session will be April 15. Oakesdale School will conduct a screening for all children birth up through five years next Friday, April 23. The free screening checks hearing, vision, speech and language,...
Lacrosse LaCrosse teachers, Mike Jones and RaeAnn Fleming, are in the process of organizing a trip to Washington, DC. Students will have the opportunity to tour Washington, DC and surrounding historical sites. The trip will take place in the summer of 2011. A parent/student meeting will be slated as soon as trip details are finalized. The students will be earning money for the trip through odd jobs, yard work and other fund raising activities. For more information about the trip or to hire students to work contact the school or e-mail Mike...
Week of April 12-16, 2010 At Colton School: Monday: Chicken nuggets, mac and cheese, green salad, fruit. Tuesday: Pancakes, sausage, hashbrowns, applesauce. Wednesday: French dip sandwiches, fries, fruit, cheesecake. Thursday: Pizza, green salad, apple slices, muffins. Friday: Grilled cheese sandwiches, cup of soup, carrot sticks, fruit. At Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Soup, sandwiches, veggies, applesauce. Tuesday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, fruit, rolls. Wednesday: Corn dogs, nachos, corn, fruit. Thursday: Burritos,...
Shingles Vaccine Helps Protect Seniors Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about shingles and the shingles vaccination? Do I need to get it? Cautious Senior Dear Cautious, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that everyone age 60 and older should get a shingles vaccination. Here’s what you should know. Pesky Virus Shingles, also known as herpes zoster, is a painful and itching skin rash that affects more than a million Americans each year. It is caused by the same virus that causes chickenpox (varicella-zoster). W...
Pictured above are the Dwarfs in the Missoula Children's Theatre production of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, presented at Rosalia. Left to right are Kyle DeGon, Matt DeGon, Logan Dempsey, Jayla Ford, Ayva Bryan, Brandon Kiehn and Collin Pittmann....
Hooper Keith and Carla Danielson enjoyed a visit from their granddaughters, Ali, Jill and Kate Mock as well as the girls parents, Tim and Erin Mock of Vancouver, March 24 - 26. The group was joined by Carla’s parents, Hugo and Carlene Pawlik from Pomeroy, to celebrate Jill and Kate’s second birthday. Ali was able to stay a few extra days with her grandparents in Hooper before going home later in the week. Anna May Tobin’s brother and sister-in -law, Jerry and Dorthy Price from New Castle, Wyo., visited March 26-29. Anna May spent Easter with...
Rosalia Miss Rosalia royalty are selling raffle tickets to raise money for the float committee. Some of the items to be raffled are Gonzaga and Cougar autographed basketballs, a Spartan blanket, T-shirts and football tickets to a Cougar game. Tickets are $1 and are available from Mike Day or current royalty members Mattie Eberle, Kaileigh Wendt and Lucy Irish, or at the school. A Blood Drive hosted by the Rosalia High School will be April 13, 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. The Coach will be located in...
Dusty Kurt Moore, son of Steve and Carol Moore, joined a group of 10 Onecho Bible Church Junior High boys on an eight day trip to the Grand Canyon last week. They traveled down through Idaho, toured Salt Lake City, a number of national parks and took a helicopter ride over the Grand Canyon. Chaperones were Todd Kinley and Pat Wuestney. They returned home Saturday night. Many attended the funeral service Monday for Matthew Cochran at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Colfax. Cochran lost his life in an avalanche last week. Tony and Denise Kendall...
Back row left to right: Andy Brown, Rob Kneale, Carl Brown, Myrna Kneale and Jami Brown. Front row left to right: Lila Kneale, Megan Brown, Scott Brown and Sylvia Field.Lila Kneale had waited for 22 years to be able to get a fifth generation picture to put in the Gazette. When her great-grandson, Carl Brown, was born, she took a fourth generation picture to them, but learned the Gazette published generation pictures starting with the fifth generation. Scott James Brown was born Feb. 26, 2010. Not only was it the fifth generation for Lila, but...
Rich, Amanda, Bryce, Ashley and Lynda For Lynda Kramlich, this spring will mark new experiences with gardening. Since having three children, her springs have been devoted to their needs. This year, the youngest, now a freshman at Colfax High School, decided to try his hand at golf – this opened up a whole new window of time for Lynda. “Vegetables is what I’m going to venture into,” she said. Lynda has long had a flower garden. In past years she did some gardening, but this year she plans t...
Residents of the Ewan area gather at the Rock Lake boat launch for the annual Easter Sunday sunrise service. Pictured are dad Shane St. John of Farmington and son Decker, eager for his first hunt. Shane Monroy and son Toby look on. (See more Easter activities on page B1 in the Weekly Paper tab)...
A suit was filed March 31 in superior court alleges a total of more than $6,800 in dues or representation fees have not been paid by the 10 defendants to the union allegedly representing them at WSU. The suit by the Washington State Federation of State Employees, based in Olympia, contends the employees worked under a collective bargaining agreement negotiated by the union from July of 2007 to the start of this year. The individual sums alleged due range from $827 to $448. Seven of the defendants reside in Washington and three in Idaho,...
Whitman County’s board of adjustment unanimously approved a plan to move the former Jones Schoolhouse from Dusty to the Palouse Empire Fairground at Mockonema. The 24 X 48 foot schoolhouse was donated to the fair by the Repp family, which purchased the school from the Dusty rural fire district. Bob Reynolds, fair manager, said Catlow Structural Lifting of Spokane has been contacted to move the building. Costs of the move are expected to come from the fair foundation. Changes in buildings for the fairground at Mockonema are required to go throug...
Garfield residents should not pay their taxes just yet. Initial statements to Garfield taxpayers said they owed a total of more than $20.09 per $1,000 of assessed property to various taxing districts. That number should be $17.49, said County Assessor Joe Reynolds. A programming error in the new software used by Whitman County’s treasurer and assessor offices put the overage on the Garfield tax bills, said Reynolds. Since those statements hit the mail last week, the courthouse and Garfield city hall have been flooded with calls from r...
Cobra Roofing Services, Inc., Spokane, was awarded a contract Monday to replace the roof on the Whitman County jail Monday by county commissioners. Cobra’s bid of $99,765 was well below the only other bid from All Surface Roofing and Waterproofing, Spokane, which bid $140,719. Bids were opened last Monday. Bob Reynolds, county facilities manager, reviewed the bid packages over the past week. Reynolds said he had to look very closely at the proposals because of the wide price gap. The plan calls for a total replacement of the roof over the c...
A charge of attempted second degree rape was filed Monday in superior court against Robert Wade Muckthel, 25, Walla Walla. He has been summoned to appear in court April 16. The Pullman police arrest report filed in court with the charges alleges the suspect last Oct. 10 attempted to rape an intoxicated woman in the women’s rest room of a bar in the college hill area of Pullman....
Thirty people attended the kickoff for Whitman Relay for Life March 25. Speakers, games, prizes and refreshments were part of the festivities for the launch of this year’s relay event which will be July 9-10 at the Colfax High School track....
The Lisonbee family of Colfax stars in Guys and Dolls. A nightclub singer in a red dress bats her eyelashes at her fiancee of 14 years on the set at the Regional Theater of the Palouse in Pullman. Hardened gamblers paw the newspapers for gambling info. Such was the scene at the media day preview Monday for Guys and Dolls which will begin a three-week run in the RTOP Theater Friday. Performances will be April 9, 10, 15, 16, 17, 22, 23 and 24, all at 7:30 p.m. The plot: hot-headed gambler Sky Masterson (George Carson) strikes a bet with Nathan...
Paper or plastic? - Myrna Morasch, Endicott “I prefer paper.” Why? “Because plastic doesn’t dissolve and go away.” - Kathy Lemon, Colfax “Who cares?” - Joe Chapie, Spokane “I always say plastic.” Why? “It’s easier. The handles don’t break as easily. Also we like to use them in our wastebaskets.” - Jamie Beaumont, Post Falls “Paper – well I use both, but I like paper better. Plastic adds up faster. It just gets all over the house....
