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NOTICE OF JOINT MEETING Notice is hereby given that a joint meeting of the Whitman County Commissioners has been called by the Board and will take place on Monday May 30, 2017 at 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at Southfork Restaurant, located at 1680 S Grand Avenue, Pullman, Washington. The purpose of this meeting is to discuss joint Latah/Whitman County related issues. Dated this 18th day of April 2017. Maribeth Becker, CMC, Clerk of the Board. 18/2 NOTICE OF MEETING WHITMAN COUNTY BOARD OF EQUALIZATION Notice is hereby given that the 2017 County...
8 years ago The Commoner April 29, 1892 Dr. N. G. Blalock, president and executive commissioner of the world's fair commission, is about to plant a great many acres to watermelons. Speaking of the matter he said: “Those people back east don't believe we can raise good watermelons. Now I will tell you what I propose to do. I will contribute to the Washington world's fair commission enough watermelons next year to fill a train of cars, and we will send a special train of delicious melons to the world's fair. When we get them there we will g...
Mary Dayton A graveside service will be held for Mary Dayton, 79, retired Colfax nurse, Saturday, May 13, 11 a.m. at the Colfax Cemetery with the Rev. Don Moore officiating. Mrs. Dayton died April 25, 2017, at Whitman Hospital in Colfax. Born May 15, 1937, in Eureka, Kan., to Leo and Faye (Tannahill) Luna, she moved with her family to an area near Yakima. She attended school in Yakima and liked to play baseball at school. She married and had two children to raise when that marriage ended. She moved to Spokane where she met Donald Dayton, Sr....
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken nuggets, rice, fresh carrots, fruit. Tuesday: Straw hats, refried beans, fruit, cookie. Wednesday: Maple bites, egg patty, tater stick, fruit. Thursday: Mac and cheese, fruit, smokies, green beans, breadstick. Friday: Deli sandwich, Sun Chips, Caesar salad, fruit. AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken fajitas with lettuce and tomato, black beans, banana. Tuesday: Pizza, salad, apple slice. Wednesday: BBQ chicken sandwich, fries, cucumber sticks, mixed fruit. Thursday: Turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, roll, salad,...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken nuggets, rice, fresh carrots, fruit. Tuesday: Straw hats, refried beans, fruit, cookie. Wednesday: Maple bites, egg patty, tater stick, fruit. Thursday: Mac and cheese, fruit, smokies, green beans, breadstick. Friday: Deli sandwich, Sun Chips, Caesar salad, fruit. AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken fajitas with lettuce and tomato, black beans, banana. Tuesday: Pizza, salad, apple slice. Wednesday: BBQ chicken sandwich, fries, cucumber sticks, mixed fruit. Thursday: Turkey gravy, mashed potatoes, roll, salad,...
Dusty An open house to celebrate Donna Camp’s 90th birthday was at the Courtyard in Colfax Saturday afternoon. About 40 friends and family attended. Barb Kinzer of Pullman made a delicious carrot cake for the celebration. Later, almost 50 family members enjoyed dinner together at Hill-Ray. Members of Donna's family who were at the dinner included Nancy and Pat Chase, Tok, Alaska; Janet Camp, wife of the late Alan Camp, their children and grandchildren from Washtucna, Entiat and Spokane; Steve and Becky Camp and their children and g...
Mythologia show slated at Dahmen "Mythologia," an exhibit of paintings by Beth Rimmelspacher and Linda Hyatt Cancel, will be on display at the Dahmen Barn from May 7 through 28. The opening reception will be May 7 from 1 to 3 p.m. Rimmelspacher has been a full time artist since 1984. She works in oils in a realistic style, capturing local landscapes down to the finest details. Cancel returned to Washington after nearly 30 years on the east coast. Glacial valleys of northeast Washington, the barren hills of central Idaho, the pastures and...
Rosalia Tanya Charles Mike Day is back home and busily rounding up prizes for his annual Battle Days raffle. He will be selling tickets, and the drawings will be June 3 during Battle Days. Visit Mike at Lee’s Garage on the corner of Whitman and 7th. Miss Rosalia and Mr. RHS courts will be taking orders for the revived Community Calendar next to Mike’s Raffle. They will also have a bake sale. Rosalia Community Float and Royalty Association is busily working on this year’s float, themed “Adventures in Candy Land.” Don Teal did a makeover...
Changes are being made to rules for the restricted use of herbicides, and the Washington State Department of Agriculture (WSDA) is currently seeking public comments on the proposed changes. Drew Lyon, endowed chair in small grains extension and research, weed science crop and soil sciences at Washington State University, said the changes are mostly about updating language and making clarifications. “Most of the changes are correcting redundancies. Some of them have to do with rules written over 50 years ago when nozzle technology was very d...
The Endicott Library marked its annual town cleanup day last week as an after-school program. This year, older kids and adults assisted the younger ones with the project....
Judy Standar McMurray (left), Whitman County Genealogical Society newsletter editor, and Monica Bartlett Peters, assistant editor, are pictured holding the plaque and certificate recently awarded by Washington State Genealogical Society. The Whitman County Genealogical Society’s newsletter was awarded the 2017 Outstanding Communication Award at the Washington State Genealogical Society’s annual meeting in Yakima. The society received a certificate and will have possession of a perpetual Out...
The Tekoa Little Free Library “Tekoa Abstraction” has officially opened to the public at Ruhl Park, 605 N Crosby St., in Tekoa. Patrons are encouraged to stop by and take a book or leave a book....
Troy Henderson is an avid fisherman, as evidenced by this June 2007 photo of the trophy marlin he caught on an offshore fishing adventure. Troy Henderson is the director of the Whitman County Department of Health. The department has offices in Pullman and Colfax. In this position, Troy oversees the environmental health program which sees that we have clean and healthy water wells, septic and solid waste systems, safe swimming pools and restaurants. The department is also responsible for vital pu...
LaCrosse DEBBIE CASEY Gazette Correspondent The LaCrosse fifth and sixth graders planted 30 elm trees alongside the LaCrosse track field border April 28....
Contestants for "Mr. Oakesdale" Friday, April 28, at Oakesdale High School were Evan Henning, Cal Gregory, Ian Pierce and Wesley Castanon. Madison Shrope and Hayden Brown organized the event. The contestant that raised the most money throughout the evening was crowned Mr. Oakesdale. The funds raised went to the St. Baldrick's Foundation. The four contestants raised more than $1,000. Ian Pierce was named Mr. Oakesdale, 2017. Mr. Talent was awarded to Evan Henning, Mr. Poise to Wesley Castanon...
Whitman County Library and Community Action Center are partnering to bring energy assistance to local towns around Whitman County. The Low Income Energy Assistance Program offers a one-time payment to help qualified residents make their energy bills more affordable. The funding pays a portion of energy costs, but the payment is not intended to cover the yearly cost of a residence. Programs have been scheduled at the following library branches: May 9 – Palouse, 1 to 3 p.m.; May 16 – Rosalia, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; May 23 – Tekoa, 1:30 to 3 p.m.;...
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. Courthouse phones knocked out Whitman County courthouse officials and staff members discovered Monday when they arrived for work that the telephone system was out of order. Chris Nelson, director of the county's IT staff, said the telephone outage has been caused by some type of failure with Century Link equipment. She said they have been workin...
Last month, a Wall Street Journal editorial hit the nail on the head recommending Amtrak focus its limited funds on shorter more heavily traveled routes between Washington, D.C., and Boston. The money is needed to prevent more derailments. The situation will only worsen unless Amtrak plows additional funds into rebuilding its dilapidated northeast railroad infrastructure. It must quit subsidizing runs greater than 750 miles. One is the Empire Builder, the passenger train started in 1929 between Seattle and Chicago. It is bleeding red ink. At...
Bobby J. Bilderback, 48, Malden, was sentenced to a 13-month state prison term April 21 after he pleaded guilty to amended charges of third degree assault and possession of methamphetamine. The conviction followed a plea bargain agreement in which the state had to drop a "third strike" charge which could have led to a life sentence for Bilderback who was convicted three years ago of providing drugs to a Malden teenager who subsequently died of a drug overdose and was the subject of a missing person report. Prosecutor Denis Tracy Thursday said t...
Mike Neves Gazette staffer SEWEDA is a familiar acronym to many folks in Whitman County. It stands for Southeast Washington Economic Development Association. The organization is a 501c3 non-profit, with funding provided at the state level. Its purpose is to help people with their businesses, whether they are existing, or only existing in the minds of would-be entrepreneurs. They focus on helping business startups or already established owners locate funding, grant opportunities and tax...
Donald Trump's saber rattling may or may not deter Kim Jong Un, but it's had an effect south of the border. In the first few months of this year, illegal border crossings have dropped precipitously. It is an early proof of concept that yes, it is possible to secure the border and a victory, even if a provisional and incomplete one, for President Trump's enforcement agenda. Once you stripped away the impossibilities from Trump's rhetoric on immigration during the campaign -- there wasn't going to be a wall along the entire border paid for by...
Those who worry that they are closed-minded because they can't conceive of agreeing with anything Donald Trump says or does can stop beating up on themselves. He's finally come up with something sensible, calling the intense focus on any president's first 100 days in office a "ridiculous standard." It is ridiculous, largely media hype, a contrived way to judge how a new administration is doing. For the record, Trump is doing a miserable job. He's a reverse King Midas. Everything he touches is tarnished, and it's not even gold to begin with,...
I read a magazine article the other day that claimed to describe how veterans see the world. I agreed with part of it but decided that the underlying objective of the article was to solicit for organizations that may or may not help veterans. The article assumed that veterans are a homogeneous group set apart from the rest of society. That assumption and the stereotype it generates are not only false but tend to support those who would con a sympathetic public. I was on a New York subway a few years ago when two guys in old field jackets...
Logan Gingerich slides home on a passed ball as Wilbur/Creston pitcher Jason Townsend covers the plate. Colfax baseball players scored all eight of their runs in the third inning Tuesday at McDonald Park to get an 8-2 win over the Wilbur/Creston Wildcats and advance to the second round of district action next Monday at Medical Lake. The Wildcats matched up against Colfax after taking out Reardan 13-6 in the first elimination game. The two games at Colfax were among a total of eight games...
On Tuesday night, Colton hosted 2B Colfax for a softball doubleheader and swept, 10-7 and 11-1. In game one, Colton gave up 12 hits and got eight of its own. At bat, Emma Schultheis went 2-for-3 and Daylinn Smith 2-for-4. On the mound for Colton, Emma Schultheis pitched all seven innings to give up seven strikeouts, six walks and the 12 hits. In game two, it ended in five innings for the 10-run rule, but was scoreless until the fourth. At that point Colton (15-2, 8-1 league) delivered six runs f...
