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If the Shoe Fits W. BRUCE CAMERON I have a pair of tennis shoes I purchased 25 years ago for $5, so in a way I feel as if I’ve gotten my money’s worth. They are stained and so full of holes that they look like something has been chewing on them at night — though I know it’s not my dog because they make him afraid. Chunks of inner shoe stuff have started falling out when I walk, which can be a little embarrassing in a restaurant. “Sir, you dropped your, um ...” a waiter will call, his voice faltering when he realizes he doesn’t actually know...
More than 100 students sawed, glued and stitched together displays for the annual Colfax Science Fair April 21. Judges from the Colfax community and the WSU Animal Science department came to the Jennings Elementary to review the entries and select the award winners. The Parent Teacher Organization of Colfax organized the event, with Heather Meyer as fair coordinator. Kindergarten through sixth grade participated in the event. Kindergarten through fifth grade participation was optional, but fair entries for sixth graders were mandatory. Top...
Shana Largent, daughter of Debbie and Brian Largent of Colfax, has been invited to join the WSU branch of the Phi Beta Kappa academic honor society. Members must be majoring in a liberal arts discipline, have 75 percent of their course work in liberal arts including courses in mathematics and a foreign language, and have earned at least 45 of their total credits from WSU with a minimum 3.66 GPA. Largent graduated from Colfax High School in 2007 and plans to graduate from WSU in May with a degree in speech and hearing sciences. Largent plans to... Full story
Oakesdale School District will provide screening for pre-schoolers next Friday, May 6, from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. The free screening for youngsters up to five years will include checks on vision, hearing, speech, language and development. Parents will be asked to provide general information. A baby book or date book may help answer questions. Appointments are required for the hour-long screening and can be made by calling the school....
Three Palouse entrants won thousands of dollars at the WSU Business Plan Competition Friday, April 22. The annual business competition is hosted by the Center for Entrepreneurial Studies in the WSU College of Business. Prizes are awarded in four categories; undergraduate, graduate, high school and open leagues. First place winner in the open competition was Joe Fondahn of Palouse for his business idea of starting a liquor distillery in Palouse. Fondahn was awarded $6,000 to help jump-start Palouse Spirits, a distillery which will brew hard... Full story
TRIVIA TEST 1. MUSIC: How many strings does a ukulele have? 2. HISTORY: Who founded the Ottoman dynasty? 3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the traditional dividing line between Manhattan’s east and west sides? 4. U.S. STATES: What state’s motto is, “If you seek a pleasant peninsula, look about you”? 5. MONEY: What is the common currency of South Africa? 6. LITERATURE: What was the first land Gulliver encountered in the satirical novel “Gulliver’s Travels”? 7. MATH: What is the Arabic equivalent of the Roman numeral D? 8. PRESIDENTS: Who was Dwight Eisenh... Full story
The Port of Whitman County agreed April 21 to have its new industrial park annexed into the Pullman Regional Hospital District. Port commissioners had delayed a decision after receiving the annexation request from the hospital district April 7. At the time, they said they wanted input from Executive Director Joe Poire and from neighboring landowners. The decision means tenants in the new industrial park will have to pay the hospital’s tax levy. The only levy currently charged property owners in the hospital district is $.49 per $1,000 charge t... Full story
In the midst of working to save the Palouse day care from closing, the Palouse school board will have its first discussion tonight with the task force it created to help the day care. Funding losses of Little Sprouts Childcare and Early Learning Center this year led the school board at a meeting April 12 to consider shutting down the center. After hearing protests from parents with children at the day care, the board that night moved to form the task force to seek options to save the day care. The task force is currently tracking down details... Full story
PULLMAN WRECK ENDS IN COLFAX A Clarkston youth who was allegedly involved in a two-car accident at the South Pullman bypass at 4:12 p.m. Monday was stopped in Colfax after Chief Bill Hickman observed the damaged car entering Colfax. The driver, Dylan Houser, 17, said he was unaware he had been in an accident or that the 1999 Chevrolet Malibu he was driving had been damaged. According to the Washington State Patrol report, the front of the Malibu collided with a 2005 Chevrolet Blazer being driven by Cynthia Faux, 52, Juliaetta , Idaho. Both...
Devon Bafus slides into third base in the second game for the Eagles behind Jenna Moser of the Wildcats. Colton and Touchet rolled up heavy wins in twin bills Saturday in SE softball action. The Wildcats shut out SJE in two short games at St. John, and Touchet turned back the Viking girls two rounds at Touchet. Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia and Dayton split in another Saturday double at Dayton. Colton Saturday blanked SJE 13-0 and 19-0 on the Eagles’ turf at St. John Colton rolled up 14 hits in the first game, and 17 hits in the second game. T...
WHITMAN COUNTY, WASHINGTON NOTICE OF A CONDITIONAL USE HEARING Palouse Wind, CU 10-16 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Whitman County Hearing Examiner will conduct an Open Record Hearing on the Conditional Use Permit Application for the Palouse Wind commercial wind generation facility on Monday, May 9, 2011, beginning at 6:00 PM in the Community Education and Training Center (CETC) building, 123 N. Main Street, Colfax, WA 99111-0430. If the Open Record Public Hearing is not concluded in one day, a second hearing date has been reserved on...
James Kenneth Miller A graveside services for James Kenneth Miller, 84, retired farmer in the Steptoe-St. John area, was Saturday, April 23, at 11 a.m., at the Bethel Cemetery in Steptoe. A gathering of friends and family was held at the Wheatland Grange. Mr. Miller died April 4, 2011, at Good Samaritan in Spokane Valley. Born Aug. 3, 1926, in Rosalia, to James W. and Ruby Woody Miller, he attended school in St. John and lived all his life on the family farm between St. John and Steptoe. He and Opal Korsvold were married Nov. 16, 1947. He was a... Full story
Photographer Mike Gordon set for May 5 Meet the Artist Photographer Michael Gordon of Pullman, owner with his wife Jeannette of Summit Realty in Pullman, will be featured as the finale of the fifth season of Meet the Artist series May 5 at 7 p.m. in the library meeting room on Main Street in Colfax. Several of his photographs are on display now in the entry to the library. The Meet the Artist Series is sponsored by Colfax Arts Council and Whitman County Library. Gordon plans to give a video presentation Thursday of representative photographs...
8 years ago - April 30, 1886 The driving of the Chinese from towns on Puget Sound, has left salmon fisheries there in a bad condition. It has deprived them of a class of labor that was both cheap and skillful and which cannot be replaced. The proprietor of the cannery at Tacoma threatens to move his establishment to the Columbia River if the Chinese are not permitted to return. White labor costs more and if it is employed the price at which salmon are sold to consumers must be increased. The season for catching usually begins the first of...
Marshall and Lucille Miller, Colfax area farm couple, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary April 10 with a reception at First Baptist Church in Colfax and a family dinner. Miller and Lucille Ensley, both of Colfax, were married April 10, 1946. Their four children and spouses are Doug and Loretta Miller Leduc, Alta.; Roger and Marilyn Miller, Cathy and Alan Morgan, and Dean and Freda Miller, all of Colfax. The Millers have 12 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren....
Kelly Alyse Paulson, daughter of Keith and Loretta Paulson of Colfax, will marry Kyle Adam Hill, son of Janice Vickery and Gary Candelaria of Colfax and Matt and Janna Hill of Ashdown, Ark., July 30 at the Western Pleasure Guest Ranch in Sandpoint, Idaho. Pastor Dean Ellis of Colfax will officiate. Kelly is a 2011 graduate of North Idaho College in Coeur d’Alene with an Associates of Science degree. Kyle is employed as a gas pipeliner....
Hooper Anna May Tobin spent Easter weekend with her daughter Cathy and husband Scott Blankenship in Washtucna. Also attending were grandchildren Philip and Amanda and their children Cadi and Philip, of Dusty. Amanda’s mother, Cathy Bell, and granddaughter Caitlin Blankenship of Moscow. Howard and Pat Morris attended an Easter dinner in LaCrosse at the home of Ryan and Dawn Morris and their children. Many members of Dawn’s family also in attended. Kate and Scooter Lyle and their children hosted Easter dinner for many members of the McGregor and...
Eleven students topping the mid block honor roll at Garfield/Palouse High School with all-A grades were J.B. Lange, Chad Redman, Blake Slocum, Ashley Stewart, Nyna VanHarn, Benjamin Weagraff, Emily Witthuhn, Erin Witthuhn and Kitiara Zettergren, seniors; Jeffrey Kent, junior and Chandler Pfaff, freshman. Earning grade averages between 3.5 and 3.99 were Meesa Dawson, Steven Griffin, Suzanne Keller, Alyssa Kriebel, Kristin Nelson, Gage Redman, Tiona Shea and Madisyn Woltering, seniors; Emily Akin, Sarah Bofenkamp, Derrick Bosch, Jessie Hathaway,...
How to Find Adult Day Care Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about adult day care for seniors? My 82-year-old father, who lives with us, has dementia and needs attention during the day while we’re at work. Looking for Care Dear Looking, Adult day care is a great and affordable option for caregivers who work, or those who just need a break during the day. Here’s what you should know. A Growing Trend The business of adult day care has been growing by leaps and bounds in recent years. Just 30 years ago, there were only around 300 adult day...
LaCrosse Eighteen enter first science fair LaCrosse Schools hosted the district’s first science fair last Wednesday. Eighteen students in grades six through eight presented and displayed projects. First place was awarded to Weston Miller for his catapult project which tested the effect of lever arm length on projectile distance. Jessica Gusky was awarded second place for her project exploring the effect of temperature on the baking soda and vinegar reaction rate. Cole Evans was awarded third place for his experiment on natural cockroach r...
Meet Danielle Treis, St. John When Danielle and Kenneth Treis decided to move their family out of Walla Walla, they had two criteria. The first was their new home be no more than two hours away from Walla Walla so they could easily visit family there. The second was access to high speed internet for Kenneth’s work. They stretched the time to two hours and fifteen minutes when they chose a home in the St. John area where they have lived for the past three years. When the Treis family made the move, Danielle was pregnant with their fifth c... Full story
DUSTY Tarri and Stetson Steiger drove to Seattle Friday evening to stay with Tarri’s daughter Geraldine. The three family members and Spencer Scholz drove to Wilsonville, Ore., to see Clare Steiger. They had lunch and visited with Clare at the home of her son, Alan and Sharon Steiger. They then went to Clare’s apartment and toured the retirement complex where she lives and her little flower garden. While there, Clare surprised Geraldine by presenting her with a quilt made by Emma Steiger Arnst out of fabric from clothing made by Clare’s late da... Full story
Farmington Library Easter coloring contest top prize winner, Ian-Micheal Pierce, was chosen for his color scheme and neatness. The Easter egg hunt brought more than 27 children and parents hunting eggs in the city park. The town sponsored a party with crafts and food following the hunt. Farmington Library hours are Tuesdays 2 to 6 with storytime for pre-school at 2 and Thursdays 2-6.... Full story
Impressed Although I have been distressed and dismayed by the petty politics in our nation’s Capitol, and especially unhappy with their seeming inability to get things done, I have also felt alienated and that anything I express would not make any difference. Your editorial in last week’s paper, however, really impressed me. If the publisher of a very small weekly newspaper thinks that what he says might do some good in Washington, D.C., then maybe my letter might be of some small influence there, too. Gordon Forgey was absolutely correct whe...
NLRB decision on Boeing plant is bad precedent During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidate Barack Obama promised organized labor that he would support their agenda. Having failed to get laborer’s priorities through Congress, the Obama administration is seeking to achieve the same goal through regulation. For example, the president campaigned on passing card check, a union-backed measure that eliminates the secret ballot in union organizing elections. Inappropriately dubbed the “Employee Free Choice Act,” card check actually elimi... Full story
