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For full obituaries please see page B4 in the weekly pages. Allen John Foss Dennis Duncan Melvin Hatley Steve Kammerzell A celebration of the life of Steve Kammerzell, 73, will take place on May 17. The family will celebrate his life at a private residence in Palouse. He died Jan. 4, 2014, of natural causes in the Spokane hospice. Born to Harry and Maggie Kammerzell, he was raised in Colfax and graduated from Colfax High School. He was a long- time resident of the Palouse region. At the time of... Full story
AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Hamburger w/ lettuce and tomato, fries, applesauce. Tuesday: Tacos w/ lettuce and tomato, refried beans, banana, maple bar. Wednesday: Macaroni & cheese, green salad, cucumber slice, grapes. Thursday: Chicken parmesan, noodles, corn, fruit in jello. Friday: Teriyaki chicken, rice, broccoli & cheese sauce, veggie tray, pineapple. AT GARFIELD/PALOUSE SCHOOLS: Monday: Hot dogs, chili, tossed salad, choice of two fruits. Tuesday: Hamburger, lettuce, sliced tomatoes, baked beans, choice of two fruits. Wednesday: Chicken...
God’s different purposes I was the chaplain at the hospital last week, and I met a woman of absolute faith. It was a beautiful thing to see in many ways. She had no doubts that everything was a part of God’s purpose and plans. That everything would always work out according to his will no matter what people did. She didn’t look for reasons, she accepted and believed. I don’t have that kind of faith. My life, my experiences, my journey will not allow me to believe that way. I would not be able to accept a god who inflicts children with disabil...
Thursday, May 1 Colfax & Tekoa – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Thursday. Visit the online calendar for times. Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Friday, May 2 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Endicott, St. John & Uniontown – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Friday. Saturday, May 3 Oakesdale – 11 a.m. – Ruff Revue – An ama... Full story
The Blessing of the Quilts and Kits took place Tuesday, April 29, at Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax. The quilts and kits that the Peace Stitchers have worked so hard on for the last few months will remain in the sanctuary until they are boxed up to go to people in need. Members of the Peace Stitchers group are Ruth Bafus, Alice Barlass, Arlene Hatley, Joann Wood, Valerie Wall and Barbara Klaudt....
Sudiksha Center for Classical Arts of India will present a free dance concert Friday, May 2, at the Daggy Hall Jones Theatre at 7 p.m. Donations are welcome and all proceeds will benefit Boost Collaborative’s Child and Family Support Services which provides screening and coordination of services for children who have developmental delays....
Area students who qualified for the winter honor roll at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher include Tina Higginbotham and Anthony Mowder, Albion; Dianna Daniel, Jeremiah Roberts, Patrick Jacobs, Marc Larkin, Alexandra Boyd and Nathan Cocking, Colfax; Nicholas Cocking, Farmington; Timothy Kaeding, Lamont: Landen Morton, Palouse; Cassadi Bruce, Rayna Charles, Steven Sessions and Grace Dibiase, Rosalia; Cari Hay and Alexandria Overton, Tekoa.... Full story
Food preservation classes at library Helen Appel will conduct classes on food preservation techniques from 1 to 2 p.m. starting May 6 and continuing each Tuesday in May at the Colfax Library. She has more than 60 years of experience preserving food. She began as a girl assisting her mother and became proficient during her 54 years of marriage to Dick Appel and while cooking for their family of 10 children, 30 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She estimates that she still cans more than 1,000 jars of food per year thanks in large part...
Dusty This past weekend was the 16th annual reunion of the women of the LaCrosse High class of 1979 at The Parsonage Bed and Breakfast. Paula Morris Meyer, Pullman; Kristal Krom Kirpes, Colton; Sheri Shaffer Hatley, Oakesdale; Doreen Broeckel Riedner, Genesee, and Denise Broeckel Kendall, Tacoma, had a project to accomplish this year. They decided to refurbish the large “L” on the hillside overlooking the town of LaCrosse with the addition of a ‘79 to commemorate their graduation year. Satur...
Lacrosse Pastime Tavern hosted a pool tournament Saturday to raise money for the Eric Binks medical fund. More than $900 was raised with more than 40 people participating. Winners were Phillip Luft and Allen Thompson, first; Don Keeney and Dana Reserve, second; and Loren Fleming and Larry Brink, third. Binks, 15-month-old son of Lyle and Cheryl Thompson Binks of LaCrosse, is now undergoing cancer treatment at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. An account for the boy has been set up at Umpqua Bank, and a fuel fund has been started at...
Moscow fabric artist Marcia Parish will be featured tonight, May 1, at the Colfax Arts Council’s “Meet the Artist” program at the library in Colfax. After working as a computer systems designer in Washington, D.C., for 22 years, she retired and moved with her husband, Rob, to the town where he grew up, Moscow. She purchased The Needle Nook, a yarn store that had been in Moscow since 1947. Marcia ran the business for 12 years even though at first she did not know how to knit. She works with fabric, fiber, paints, dyes, beads and many diffe...
Colfax ensemble members left to right: Nicole Wiley, Alison MacDonald, Kelly Ward, Lizzy May, Kindra Kneale, Lauren Claassen, Clare Jacobs, Holly Rimbey, Erica Eng, Katie Largent and Brittany Lewis. Eleven Colfax High School choir students who qualified for state WIAA Solo and Ensemble contest at Central Washington University in Ellensburg performed over the weekend. Friday the trio and large ensemble performed. They are Katie Largent, Lizzy May, Kindra Kneale, Kelly Ward, Erica Eng, Clare... Full story
Kirbee, Nathan, Peggy, Rex, and Mitch Barney enjoying Disneyland. Peggy Barney was raised on a potato and wheat farm in Shelley, Idaho, and she became very familiar with siphon tubes as a kid. For the dryland farmers or city folk, siphon tubes are three to four foot long tubes of aluminum, curved to fit over the side of a ditch, preferably concrete-lined, which siphons water from the ditch to small furrows to flow through the field. Her father was also a plant breeder, and he had research... Full story
Inland commercial navigation between Lewiston and Portland resumed about 4:30 p.m. April 21 with the official reopening of the navigation lock at Little Goose Lock and Dam on the lower Snake River near Starbuck, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials announced. The lock was kept out of service following the annual maintenance outage during March when cracks in the steel of a gudgeon arm assembly on the top of the lock’s downstream south gate leaf were tested and determined to be unsafe for c...
Real estate sales Meriem Chida, Bloomington, Ind., to Andrew John and Tammy Jo Kivi, Pullman, house on NW Bella Vista Drive in Pullman, $215,000, April 22. JoAnne Kissler, Honolulu, Hawaii, to Corrine M. Lowe, Colfax, condominium on N. Mill Street in Colfax, $80,000, April 22. R. Dale and Gail K. Griggs, St. John, to Marc and Sheree Black, St. John, house on Sunset Road in St. John, $60,000, April 22. Douglas R. and Anna S. Henderson, Pullman, to Chutao Yin, Pullman, house on SW Lost Trail Drive in Pullman, $248,000, April 22. Stan VanArsdel,... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. The Sound of Bad-Car Karma I was driving down the highway a few days ago when my car’s engine began making an odd, expensive-sounding noise. A small light appeared on my dashboard, illuminating a small symbol that seemed to indicate my transmission had just lost a chicken. I called my mechanic, Melvin Walletdrainer. “Is the noise like, ‘klug-pee, klug-pee, krakatoa klug-pee-pee’?” he wanted to know. “Not really,” I replied. “More like a ‘Mike’s little toe, Mike’s little to... Full story
Project and process In light of the most recent failure to pass the Oakesdale School District bond issue, it seems appropriate at this time to have a candid and unemotional discussion of both project and process. To summarize, the District has attempted to pass a school bond issue three times in the last few years, and it has failed each time. Two of the three rejections have occurred in 2014, once in February and once in April. The April project called for a new elementary school and some high school renovations. The February project called...
Picking on Condoleezza Rice If Condoleezza Rice were as self-pitying and politically crass as Attorney General Eric Holder, she would be wondering aloud what it is about her race and gender that accounts for the hostility to her. Rice’s speaking gigs on college campuses and her ascension to the board of the Internet company Dropbox have sparked protests calling for her to be disinvited, cashiered and generally isolated and shamed. Condi Rice is not a natural lightning rod. She’s such a disreputable figure that she’s on the board of the Kenne...
Health-Care Politics — Not So Fast Just to be clear, I may have been wrong. Of course, that’s nothing new for a political commentator, although usually we don’t have to admit we were mistaken. I have been among the herd-followers who have argued that Obamacare might do in the Democrats’ chances in this year’s elections for control of the Senate, with Republicans wasting no chance whatsoever to tarnish their opponents with the Affordable Care Act. Now, however, I’m beginning to waver (another privilege that goes with this job). There are s... Full story
Whitman County has lost its Standard & Poors Bond rating. This is because financial information was not received in a timely manner for the organization to judge the county’s credit worthiness. A minor clerical error? No, it is much more than that. The final financial reporting for 2012 (that’s right 2012, not 2013) is not yet completed. The problem is centered in the auditor’s office. From there it has been put on the infamous NewWorld accounting software and a litany of other culprits. Some time ago, we were told the county’s account... Full story
8 years ago The Commoner May 3, 1889 The Seventh Day Adventists of eastern Oregon, eastern Washington and north Idaho will hold their annual camp meeting on the South Palouse, one half mile above Colfax, commencing May 22 and holding over until May 28th. From 300 to 500 people of that religious belief will be present. They will have erected a large canvas pavilion in which services will be held and numerous small tents will dot the valley. Elders E.P. Daniels and J.M. Loughborough will preside. Forty-three stallion licenses have been issued b...
Ten students who led the mid-block II honor roll at Garfield-Palouse High School with all-A grades include Sarah Fisch, Katryna Newman and Chandler Pfaff, seniors; Jacob Arlt, Gabe Cocking and Rachel Nelson, juniors; Holly Brown, Matt Holbrook and Rafferty Shelton, sophomores; and Victoria Welch, freshman. High honors students with grade averages from 3.50 to3.99 include: Samantha Johnson, Zachary Kuehner, Jesse Lopez, Taylor Redman and Kathryn Yoder, seniors; Libby Akin, Mary Hansen, Mitch Jamison, David Milano, Emily Stout, Tyler Thurman and... Full story
Although official candidate filing date for this year's election is slated to begin May 12, candidates can now file by mail. Candidates can obtain filing forms from the auditor's elections office or from the Secretary of State's website and submit them by mail. Candidates can call the elections office at 397- 5284 to obtain a form. Election supervisor Debbie Hooper said the mailed filings will be numbered but will not be announced or officially registered until the official start of filing, May 12. The May 12 date will be when the Secretary of...
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. POOLE MAKES CITY TOUR Kevin Poole, lead candidate for the Colfax city administrator’s position, completed a long day of interviews and tours with a public meeting Monday night at The Center next to the library. Poole, a self-employed civil engineer, said he is now wrapping up work on a $15.2 m... Full story
Sections of the Snake River below Little Goose Dam and below Clarkston opened to fishing for spring chinook salmon April 24. Two other sections of the river, below Ice Harbor Dam near Pasco and below Lower Granite Dam, willed April 27. Each section of the river is scheduled to be open three days per week. The Little Goose Dam and Clarkston area sections will be open Thursday through Saturday each week, while the sections of the river below Ice Harbor Dam and below Lower Granite Dam are scheduled to be open Sunday through Tuesday each week. The...
