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What is it about religion? Even in these modern times where we are exposed to a world full of ideas, how can what presents itself as the ultimate force for love bring out the absolute worst hate in people? In the state of Indiana there was a law passed, purported to be a protection for religion, yet motivated by a desire to humiliate human beings whose only “sin” is choosing a member of the same gender to love. Under this legislation, religious reasons can be cited as legal justification to discriminate against gays, meaning that the bigot can... Full story
The effort to breach the Snake River dams is once again gaining momentum. This issue, although a very serious one, is like a whack-a-mole game. Hit one and another pops up elsewhere. The idea apparently has a life of its own. The revival of the idea cannot be because of the fish runs. The fish runs are healthier than they have been in years. Millions of dollars have been spent on protecting the fish, and the effort is working. It cannot be because all the wind farms are generating so much electricity. The power from these does not compare with... Full story
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. COLFAX WOMAN DIES IN ACCIDENT A three vehicle accident on Highway 195 Saturday night four miles north of Pullman took the life of a Colfax woman and left three others injured. The fatality victim was identified as Dina Williamson, 28, Colfax. She was the driver of one of two cars which collided. Injured were Lana Fonnesbeck, 45, Lewiston,...
Colfax girls placed fourth Friday in the big Carnival of Speed meet at McLoughlin High School in Milton Freewater. They rolled out 57.83 points in a meet which drew 22 teams, many of them large school teams from Oregon. Pentleton, a top divison school in Oregon, topped the team points with 127 points; Umatilla scored 74, and host McLoughlin 63. Junior Scout Cai won the high jump with a leap of 5-1, and pole vault at 10-0. Parker Warwick, who was recently cleared for competition after undergoing hip surgery, took the 400 with a clocking of...
Track competitors from the Garfield/Palouse/ Oakesdale combo and St. John/Endicott rolled up some wins last Wednesday in the big SE district meet at Dayton. Anne Hockett took big wins in both hurdle events for the Vikings plus the 400 meter run. Sophomore Zoe Robertson took the 800 and the 1600. She won the 1600 with a margin of more than 17 seconds. S.J.E. freshman Jadyn Corder topped the discus by more than two feet with a 78-3 sling. She also placed third in the shot-put. On the boys side, SJE’s Adam Blakeley won the 400 with a 56.5, and Jim...
Colton junior pitcher Carter Dahmen delivered a no-hitter against St. John-Endicott last Friday for an 11-0 win. The game was the first of a doubleheader. The Wildcats won the second game 21-0. Dahmen threw 13 strikeouts with two walks. At the plate for Colton (6-0 overall, 4-0 league), leadoff hitter Austin Meyer posted three hits and four RBIs in the first game. Dahmen also had three hits while Brady Chadwick hit two doubles. Also in the first game, eighth-grader Parker Druffel made his first varsity start, going 2-for-2....
Colfax senior Lura Potter, who is competing with the Odessa/Harrington tennis team, added two match wins last week. She topped Emily Zunker of Reardan last Tuesday in a match at Reardan 6-0 6-0 and stopped Ireland Looper of Pateros 6-0 6-4 in a home match Thursday at Harrington....
Registration for the Palouse 100K relay and solo run, sponsored by Pullman Regional Hospital Summit Therapy & Health Services, is now open. The race will be Saturday, April 18, and will begin at the Summit Therapy building located at 1620 SE Summit Court in Pullman. Start time for the team race is 7:30 a.m. The race is being held in partnership with the Palouse Road Runners. Start time for solo runners is 6 a.m. Registration will be open until April 11. Fees will be $20 per team member or $50 per solo runner. An expo will be at Pullman...
Dustyn Hall throws for the Bulldogs in the second game against the Broncos. Colfax catcher Cal Gregory puts the tag on the Broncos’ Damien Rouleau along the third base line in the second game Friday at McDonald Park. The Colfax baseball team booked two wins Friday over the visiting LRS Broncos to advance their league record to 6-0. The Bulldogs Friday are slated to host Mary Walker of Springdale in the next league double at McDonald Park. Colfax Friday crunched the Broncos 20-6 in a long f...
LaVern Torgeson as a member of the Detroit Lions after his WSU career. LaVern Torgeson, the LaCrosse High School graduate who played football for the Cougars at Washington State College and had a 42-year career in the National Football League as a player and a coach, died March 23 in Huntington Beach, Calif. He had made his retirement home in Huntington Beach for the last 20 years. His death was reported by his wife, Nola Carmichael Torgeson, a 1955 graduate of Washington State College from...
The Gar-Pal baseball season is underway, dodging rainouts with the return of longtime coach Jim Stewart. Coaching the Vikings from 1988 until 2007, Stewart returns to the helm this spring. On the roster for the 3-1 team are four seniors, four juniors, a sophomore and four freshman. "It’s been a lot of fun," said Stewart. "It’s a great group of kids." The team opened the season with a doubleheader split at Liberty Christian followed by a two-game sweep of the Asotin J.V., 8-4 and 6-1. A rainout with Potlatch followed, along with some sch... Full story
The Colton softball team is on a temporary hiatus for Spring Break while play is to resume Monday at home vs. Orofino. Coach Brad Nilson again leads the team, in his ninth year as head coach. The Wildcats began their defense of the state 1B title with a loss in their first game, at Dayton. Since then, they beat Asotin 11-1 and dominated Touchet in a doubleheader. The team has six returning starters and is missing one in catcher Carrie Hennigar, who is not able to play due to an injury before...
Cheyanne Stokes of the Bulldogs goes into third base against the throw. Sara Aldrich is on third for the Broncos. Springdale softball players will bring an 8-0 league record to McDonald Park Friday when they go up against the Colfax Bulldogs. Colfax will host with a 4-0 record after defeating the LRS Broncs in two games last Friday. The Bulldogs blanked the Broncos 19-0 over five innings in the first game and stacked up 17 hits. They had a monster 15 runs in the bottom of the fourth inning.... Full story
A Palouse community blood drive will be next Thursday, April 16, from 1 to 6:15 p.m. at the Palouse Community Center....
Palouse merchants will welcome spring Saturday at their annual open house with refreshments, spring specials and door prizes. The event is sponsored by the Palouse Chamber of Commerce A spring craft fair will be held at the Palouse Community Center from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.... Full story
Volunteer clean-up crews from throughout the Palouse will converge Saturday for the 11th annual Pullman Stream Clean-up. Organized by the City of Pullman and the PalouseClearwater Environmental Institute, the event attracts more than 200 students and residents each year. Crews will start at the Spring Street Park, next to the skate park, then spread out along the South Fork of the Palouse River. Last year, crews cleaned out more than 10 cubic yards of trash and recyclables from local waterways. More than 20 businesses and organizations support... Full story
Whitman County commissioners received its 15th marijuana license application. This application is for Cloud 9 Good Budz along Hwy 195 at Pullman with a mailing address in Tacoma. Applicants named on the application are Cloud 9 Smoke & Ale LLC as Eugene J. Demesa, Caroline Demesa and Robert Stanton Courville. The commissioners, as they have in the past, reviewed the application without comment.... Full story
Dan Morris, Valleyford, retired banker, was elected to the board of Hill Ray Plaza. Morris takes the board seat which was vacated when Donald Deen of Colfax retired from the board. Morris retired from Bank of Fairfield in 2002 and worked for Windermere Real Estate for five years. He began his financial career at Kirkpatrick, Utgaard & Perry in Colfax in 1972 and then joined Washington Trust Bank in 1982 and was employed there before joining the Bank of Fairfield. Morris is married to the former Diane Stueckle, daughter of Irma Stueckle and the... Full story
WSU Extension is once again holding a “Pathways to Prosperity Rural Economic Development” conference Friday, April 17, at more than 20 locations in Washington. Clarkston will be one of the host sites for this conference. The conference features Rural Economic Development Specialist Erik Pages from Arlington, Va., via webinar, plus local entrepreneurs and experts. Following Pages’ presentation, participants at the Clarkston site will have the opportunity to hear from local entrepreneurs and put their ideas into action through organized activ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has begun implementing its 2015 Spring Fish Operations Plan. The program provides for spills at the four lower Snake River and four lower Columbia River dams to facilitate the timely and safe passage of juvenile salmon and steelhead. As specified in NOAA Fisheries’ 2014 Supplemental Biological Opinion (BiOp), the plan calls for spill to begin at the lower Snake River dams April 3 and lower Columbia River dams April 10. The annual plan, prepared by the corps, is coordinated with states, tribes and other federal a...
This farmer took advantage of a perfect spring day to get some seeding done. He was working in a field near Endicott on Friday afternoon, April 3....
Port of Whitman County commissioners on April 2 approved a cooperative agreement to better inform the public about what three local ports are doing. The Port of Whitman County along with the Port of Clarkston and the Port of Lewiston agreed to enlist Desimone Consulting Group to draw a regional picture of what the ports’ roles are in the region. Each port will chip in $10,000 for the program. The agreement came about because conversation about breaching the dams on the Snake and Columbia rivers has come to the forefront again. Port c...
The city of Tekoa will chip-seal five roads this summer in a project estimated to cost $75,000. The roads, which are now gravel, will effectively be paved once work is complete. Howard, Sophy, Elizabeth, Truax and Lebo streets are residential roads as short as three blocks long. “We’ve been wanting to do this,” said Tekoa Mayor John Jaeger. The funding for the project will come out of the city’s streets fund and general fund. Tekoa’s Public Works Department will perform the preparation work to the gravel while a crew from Whitman County Pu...
Emergency Management Director Bill Tensfeld on Monday recommended a Seattle engineering company as a radio system consultant for the county’s emergency management. The number-two bid was approved by the county commissioners. Five bids were received for the consulting services, and after examining the bids, Tensfeld found the lowest bid from Concepts to Operation of Annapolis, Md., for $76,700 did not meet specifications. The next lowest bid was from Hatfield & Dawson Consulting Engineers of Seattle for $82,800. The consultant will evaluate the...
These daffodils are hanging their heads because of heavy, wet snow. The ground was covered with about two inches of the white stuff on Monday morning with no trace of it by Monday evening. Some farmers believe spring snow is good for crops....
