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May 12-16 AT COLFAX SCHOOLS: Monday: Shredded BBQ chicken on bun, fries, cole slaw, fruit. Tuesday: Corn dog, nachos, salad, fruit. Wednesday: Beef dippers, rice, green beans, sunshine bar, fruit. Thursday: Straw hats, frito chips, refried beans, sunshine bar, fruit. Friday: Burritos, tater tots, corn, fruit. AT COLTON SCHOOL: Monday: Country fried steak, potatoes with gravy, green beans, roll, fruit. Tuesday: Chicken sandwich, fries, fruit. Wednesday: Stuffed cheese sandwich, soup and salad, corn, fruit. Thursday: Hot dogs, pork and beans,...
8 years ago The Commoner May 10, 1889 Improvements which add greatly to the convenience and appearance of the auditor’s office were made this week. More book room has been secured enabling the force to get along without having books of records scattered promiscuously about. Miss Berry of Walla Walla, who has been visiting relatives here, was received on last Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Berry of this city, quite a number of young people, as on Tuesday she was to depart for her home. As expressed by many, the party for s... Full story
8 years ago The Commoner May 10, 1889 Improvements which add greatly to the convenience and appearance of the auditor’s office were made this week. More book room has been secured enabling the force to get along without having books of records scattered promiscuously about. Miss Berry of Walla Walla, who has been visiting relatives here, was received on last Monday evening at the home of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Berry of this city, quite a number of young people, as on Tuesday she was to depart for her home. As expressed by many, the party for s...
Easter gathering of the Schmick family started with early arrivals for dinner at Sol Vallarta and Saturday lunch at Eddie’s. For 20 years the Hill Ray Plaza has served their great Saturday night buffet. Around 80 relatives attended. Among the attendees were: Gerald Schmick, Don Schmick, Katie Schmick, Mary Beth Shaw, Dustin, Emil and Liam Dawson, Colfax; Jill and Dan Moore, Steve and Suzanne Schmick; Endicott; Michael and Kylie Palazzola, Fort Lewis; Kyle and Jean Blumenscheen, PeEll; Doug and Melanie Schmick, Rory and Katie Schmick, Greg a...
The theme for the week of April 30 at Colfax High School was Autism Awareness. FCCLA sponsored this project to help the students in the Jr/Sr High School recognize that everyone is different and that they, the students, need to be understanding of differences. The week started with lighting up classrooms and hallways with blue lights. Blue is the representative color for autism because more boys are affected with autism than girls. On April 30, FCCLA hosted an assembly to bring awareness to the... Full story
Dreadlocks and I met on a quiet rural road in southern Louisiana early one morning back in March 2011. He was young and had hair to the middle of his back, in dreadlocks, so his nickname came easily. As I traveled America by bicycle that year, I loved to give folks names which reminded me of who they were. He returned the favor, calling me “Old Man!” He and I were together about seven days and he became like a son to me. We shared honestly about our lives ~ faith, family, friends, hopes and dreams and more. One night, around the campfire, aft...
*For full obituaries, see the Weekly Pages section for this week's paper. Mark Joseph Byrd Barbara Cook-Mason Anthony R. Esquivel Anthony R. (Tony) Esquivel, 62, a resident of the Tekoa Retirement Apartments, died last Thursday morning, May 1, 2014, at his home from an apparent heart attack. Born Sept. 4, 1951 at Sacramento, Calif., to Mike P. and Helen Marie (Marinoff) Esquivel, he was raised in the Sacramento area and attended schools there. Tony later attended Evergreen State College in Washington and married Sharon L. Maracle May 14, 1977,... Full story
The annual honors dessert at Garfield-Palouse High School April 28 recognized 49 students who had accumulative grade point averages of 3.0 or above. Robert Lopez, Jr., of Palouse, hardware engineer design manager at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, spoke to the students about setting and achieving goals. He encouraged students to consider the acronym MAGIC: M-motivation, A-assertiveness, G-gifts, I-Integrity, C-courage.... Full story
Spokane Community College recently released its winter honor roll list. Students must earn a grade average of 3.0 or higher. Area students on the roll include Megan Groom and Abigail Murphy, Colfax; Zackary Hudson, Colton; Brett Wagner and Rachael Rambo, Farmington; Danielle Wilson, Garfield; Tamra Vandyke, Malden; Chris Nilles, Oakesdale; Robert Leininger and Matthew Malakowsky, Pullman; Erin Braun, Chandra Richardson and Alyssa Roecks, Rosalia; Morgan Anderson, Steven Bowen and Sarah Lyons, St. John; and Dustin Devorak, Un...
Twenty-one students topped the third quarter honor roll at Colton High School with all-A grades. They included Savannah Chadwick, Samuel Faerber and Winnie Schultheis, seniors; Carter Dahmen and Zoe Moser, juniors; Brady Chadwick, Kendyl Druffel, Emma Schultheis, sophomores; Cambria Smetana, freshmen; Cambria Smetana, eighth grade; Erin Ankerson, Reece Chadwick, Jordyn Moehrle, Brady Stout, Luke Vining, and Rachel Willis, seventh grade. High honors students with grade averages of 3.4-3.99 grade averages included Dillon Frank, Casey Jackson,... Full story
Primeland Cooperatives began serving customers and owners under the name CHS Primeland effective May 1. The Lewiston-based operation is a locally controlled business of CHS Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative. “As part of CHS since 1995, our board of directors has elected to adopt the name ‘CHS Primeland’ to communicate that we are part of the nation’s leading agricultural cooperative, bringing resources and market access to our communities,” said Ken Blakeman, general manager. “We are committed to helping our owners grow t...
Christine Kackman, left, Athenaeum art contest chair, presented awards to the winners of the club's art contest recently. Left to right, Brooklyn Schmidt, was third place winner, Alexandria Martinez was second place and Colfax Art Instructor Cheryl Lothspeich holds the first place painting by Kim Hinnenkamp (not pictured). Mrs. Lothspeich coordinated the art contest in her art classes and the students were asked to copy a masterpiece by a famous artist. Athenaeum honors them with a certificate...
Angela Buri grew up in Oregon City, Ore., but has come to love Whitman County. Her favorite place in the area is Klemgard Park, where she recently spent five hours one day by herself, walking, reading and enjoying the signs of spring. She and husband Blake take their children to the park to play volleyball or baseball, walk a few loops and play in the creek. Angela grew up in a pretty dysfunctional home, but found love and acceptance at her church and with her grandparents. She was a strong...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Community Pride plans a silent auction to raise funds for operation of the public section of the LaCrosse Market building. The auction will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the community part of the market which includes a meeting area, an area for DECCA students and the LaCrosse Branch of Whitman County Library. LaCrosse Community Pride is responsible for maintenance, utility, insurance and tax bills for that part of the property. Residents can participate by donating items for the silent auction or making a financial donation...
Endicott Endicott Community Club will sponsor a flea market Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the club lot across from the store and former bank building. Some new things have been going on at the Endicott Post Office. This past week they have ready for use new parcel lockers for those in town that get packages too big to fit in their Post Office Box. Residents will get a key to unlock the locker and be able to get packages out when the Post Office is closed. Contact Postmaster Ashlee Taylor for more information Collection time for...
Dusty Friday, May 9, Country Bible Church will perform their community good deed by cleaning the ditches along Highway 127 for the Adopt a Highway program. They will meet at the church at 8:30 a.m. Anyone wanting to participate is welcome. Lucky and Joan Myrick visited their son Mike Parkland over the weekend. He showed them the latest project, an apartment building on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, which the construction company he works for just completed. Mike was the assistant superintendent for the project. Saturday, Di and Larry Brink took...
McDonald completes Sergeants Major course Patrick McDonald will graduate June 6 from the U.S. Army Sergeants Major academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. McDonald, who was raised in Colfax, has been in El Paso for the past nine months going through the training. He plans to return to his position as a special assistant to Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman. He is also completing his work for a doctorate degree in public policy with study on the impact of vote-by-mail in Washington and Oregon. Gar-Pal stage show Garfield-Palouse High School drama pe...
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 DECLINES JOB OFFER Kevin Poole of Lewiston Monday declined a job offer to become the Colfax city administrator. Mayor Todd Vanek reported to Colfax city council members Monday night that Poole had called him approximately an hour before the meeting and decided not to move to Colfax and take the city administrator’s job. Vanek relayed t...
KamrynAyn Lehn was chosen Miss Tekoa at the mid March program entitled “Royal Dreams.” First Princess Rebecca Zimmerman and Princesses Madison Bogenreif and Melissa Groom will make-up the 2014-15 court. Zimmerman was also named Miss Congeniality. The ladies will host the Slippery Gulch auction and float preview May 16 before riding their newly designed float in the Lilac Torchlight and Armed Forces parade the next evening. Left to right are Groom, Zimmerman, Lehn and Bogenrei... Full story
Real estate sales Dorothy E. Weinberg, trustee of the Weinberg Trust U.A., Pullman, to Marilyn L. Thoman, San Diego, Calif., house on NW Turner Drive in Pullman, $233,000, May 1. Claudia L. Wilhelm, Spokane, to Russell and Karen Floyd, Rosalia, land near Rosalia on Wilhelm Road, $278,000, May 1. Bao Anh Luong and Phong Anh Chau, Snohomish, to Wycliffe Nyongesa and Suzanne Kopan Sakwa, Pullman, house on Turner Driver in Pullman, $186,900, May 1. Lenora A. Nelson, Charlotte Ann Hemingway and Walter Bruce Nelson, trustees of the Lenora A. Nelson...
These days, too much of our politics is agenda-driven, with little regard for the impact on “real people.” Politicians proclaim their concern for the little guy, but they hang around with rich folks, celebrities and power brokers. Former governor Mike Lowry isn’t like that. If you are looking for Lowry these days, you’re likely to find him in central Washington putting together affordable housing projects. He’d rather have coffee with working people than hobnob with movers and shakers. Despite serving only one term as governor, Lowry remains o... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. I went over to my daughter’s place for a visit, so she left town. I guess that’s not precisely what happened: I was asked to “house sit,” as if her home needed supervision to keep it from jumping on the furniture and staying up past its bedtime. It sounds pretty benign, until you consider that inside the house are two cats and two dogs — one of which is a puppy named Baron. To be more precise, Baron is a 9-month-old Great Dane, so when I say “puppy,” I mean “mastodon.” Thi...
Hillary Clinton is in a formidable position to win the Democratic presidential nomination in 2016, should she decide to run. But someone else also is in an enviable position: Whoever challenges her. The dynamics of the Democratic 2016 race so far feel more like an incumbent president clearing the primary field of any potential spoilers prior to a re-election bid rather than a wide-open nomination contest. At this early juncture, the question is not so much who will be her opponent(s), but whether she will have any, or even one. She certainly... Full story
It’s a platitude we hear about politics all the time: Negative campaigns should be avoided. I don’t know how to break this to everybody, but at this point in our history, it’s nearly all negative. Let’s face it, we rarely vote for candidates. Normally, we cast our ballot against them. No wonder. As often as not, it’s a choice between bad and worse — or worst, if there’s a third party involved. Of course, this year it’s really about choices ... 468 of them: 435 in the House of Representatives, 33 in the Senate. But it’s also a singular decision...
Climate change assessment Eighteen percent of Americans do not believe in global warming. Not happening, they say. The federal government has a different opinion. Not only is climate change happening, it is happening more swiftly than originally thought. The National Climate Assessment report details changes for the country. Droughts will become more persistent and harmful. Floods from heavier, more concentrated rains will become more frequent. Storm surges in coastal cities will become more destructive. Crops and animals will become...
