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Serving Whitman County since 1877
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If you’ve followed Colfax sports, Palouse Empire Fair news or been a patient at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center, you’ve probably already heard of Jami Pierson Imler. The daughter of Jill and Robbie Pierson, she was born in 1976 and grew up on the family ranch at Hay and in Colfax. She has an older sister, Bobette. Her older brother, Chad, farms with Robbie, and their children and Jami’s enjoy family times together. Jami attended school in LaCrosse until they moved to Colfax at the start of her fifth grade year. Her mother worked at Jenni...
The Croskrey Trio, a father and his two daughters from Spokane, will play at the Dahmen Barn Saturday, May 12, at 7:30 p.m. They will play and sing Swing, Bluegrass and Old Standards from the 20s to the 40s. All ages are invited to come to dance or listen. The cost at the door is $7 per person or $20 for a family. Father Greg was part of the original family vocal group and a member of the Doug Scott Cabaret Band. After 30 years of working in the high tech industry, he returned to the entertainment field with his two daughters, Cady and...
The Perkins House volunteers will meet to plan the 2012 Ice Cream Social Monday, May 14, at 6 p.m. at the Perkins House in Colfax. Volunteers with new ideas are encouraged to attend!...
Teens are invited to spend the afternoon with Teen Librarian Chelsea Leachman Monday, May 14, at 5:30 p.m. in the Garfield Library. Snacks, extra computers and supplies for duct tape wallets will be provided. Garfield School’s combined elementary classes collected a grand total of $108.22 in the penny drive. The combined kindergarten-first grade class won a cupcake and ice cream party for their donation of $67. Garfield Library hours are Mondays from 12:30 to 6:30 p.m. and Wednesdays from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Kindergarten and preschool S...
Genealogy Society Whitman County Genealogy Society will sponsor a discussion of genealogy and DNA testing Saturday, May 12, in the Gold Room at Gladish Community Center in Pullman. A presentation will be made regarding a “DNA surname study” and several members will discuss their experiences with DNA testing. There is a $20 fee and lunch will be available to order through Heroes and Sports. The program will begin at 9:30 and run through lunch, until about 1:30. Contact WCGS Program Chair Jean Innerarity for more information. blu...
News has been received of the death of Victor Stueckle, Walla Walla, Sunday, May 6. Mr. Stueckle was born in the Dusty area in 1924. Services will be at the College Place Presbyterian Church at 11 Tuesday, May 15. Saturday, Di Brink took Mike Stine and Norma Gibson to Cheney where they participated in the Special Olympics Track Meet. They both did very well in the three events each entered. Sunday, Kim and Cindy Pitts attended the baptism of their grandson, Tate Carlson, son of Amanda and Erik Carlson, in Spokane at the Prince of Peace...
Members of the Colfax High School jazz band show the first-place trophy they won Saturday at Mt. Hood Community College in Gresham, Ore. Under the direction of Mike Morgan, they placed first place in Division 3 which included eight schools with enrollment up to 600. Colfax has competed at the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival for 18 years and also won titles in 1997 and 2004. Second place was awarded to Astoria High School and third to North Bend High School, both of Oregon. Outstanding soloists awards went to Mark Black, baritone saxophone, and to Sam...
The History Channel • On May 22, 1455, the battle of England’s War of the Roses begins in St. Albans, 20 miles northwest of London. The forces of House of York, whose badge was a white rose, defeated the red-rose House of Lancaster. Both families claimed the throne, and the war would stretch on for 30 years. • On May 23, 1701, at London’s Execution Dock, British privateer William Kidd, popularly known as Captain Kidd, is hanged for piracy and murder after capturing a boat that was loaded with gold, jewels, silk, sugar and guns. A colorful legen... Full story
A CHS senior stood in the sun next to a horse, looking out the entry of the FFA building. Two pickups arranged inside had raised hoods. In the library, administrators and evaluators looked over portfolios, and in the hallways students waited as the minutes counted down. Senior project night was about to start Thursday at Colfax High School. This year’s class includes 54. Voices in the hall indicated what was to come. “Are we supposed to go in there?” “This is my stress ball.” “I told my mom...
A community clean-up day at Thornton Cemetery is scheduled Saturday, May 19. The clean-up is open to the public, and all friends of Thornton Cemetery are particularly invited to attend. Clean up will begin at 9 a.m. and will include raking, trimming and picking up debris. Volunteers are asked to bring rakes, gloves and protective eye wear. Thornton Cemetery Preservation Association, a nonprofit corporation registered in Washington State, is sponsoring this event. Their application for recognition of Federal tax-exempt status is pending,...
Step raises reality I want to begin by saying that I am the wife of the grader operator out of the Colton shop in District #2. My husband and many of his co-workers have worked in their positions for many years. There is a very low turnover with these hard working guys. I am so fed up with the continuous reference in the paper from the higher ups about these employees getting longevity (step) raises every 18 months. To quote Mr. Lothespeich “employees have gotten scheduled longevity raises of 3% for every 18 months they work at the same time e...
After hearing more than an hour of arguments May 3, Superior Judge David Frazier ruled evidence in the Millhorn Kentucky Bluegrass suit indicated Scotts Company executives had authorized a 20 cent per pound price bump which was offered to growers as an incentive to contract for seed production. The judge ruled e-mail messages between Scotts agents and employees of Seeds Inc., Tekoa, qualified as undisputed evidence that Scotts had authorized the 20-cent bump in Kentucky Bluegrass contracts as an incentive to sign growers before May of 2008....
After a 60-day free trial of two security cameras, Colfax High School has decided to buy two of them, one with stronger lenses which will be moved to a different location. In February, A-Tec of Spokane installed two four-way cameras at the school. One was put in the main foyer with the other outside, providing views of the parking lot and north doors. Supt. Michael Morgan decided to buy the one installed outside to make it permanent. In addition, the second camera will be taken out of the... Full story
A piece of lore from the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railroad, now the Columbia Plateau Trail, has returned to the scene. Cheney Boy Scout Phillip Kaplan developed the sign board with SP&S information for his Eagle Scout project. The sign is posted at a rest site on the west side of the trail about one-half mile north of the trailhead on the Cheney Spangle Road. Engine 702 was made in 1938 by the Baldwin Locomotive Works. The photos are laser etched on cedar boards. The SP&S line, started in 1905, was closed down in 1987 by the Burlington...
W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. A few years ago, I was rather disappointed to learn that I’m not smart enough to dig a hole in my backyard. My cousin Ken had come over to help me build a deck off the back of the house by doing all the work. My father was there, too, and was assisting by watching the basketball game and keeping us informed of the score, and complaining that we were low on beer. Ken seemed grateful that I had assembled such a crack team to assist him. Running short of bee...
There are dams that should come down and those that shouldn’t. Demolishing the two dams on the Elwha River west of Port Angeles is a good thing and, hopefully the salmon and steelhead will return in record numbers. The dams were built in the early 1900s to bring electricity to the Olympic Peninsula at a time when salmon and steelhead were plentiful in other Pacific Northwest rivers. On the Elwha River, the issue was clear: Two barriers were blocking salmon from moving upstream. The care with which the demolition was planned, studied and i... Full story
IN THE LAST WEEK of April, the U.S. House passed a Republican bill, 215-195, to prevent student loan interest rates from doubling on July 1 from the present 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent for the 7.4 million students affected. By a vote of 178 to 231, members defeated a Democratic motion that sought to prevent health care spending cuts in the student loan bill, HR 4628, from reducing benefits or raising the cost of private medical insurance for women and children. Also sent to the Senate was a bill, HR 3523, approved 248-168, to expand data sharing...
A few weeks ago the national average price for a gallon of gasoline peaked at $3.94. Every newscast covered the escalating prices, punctuating the reports with unhappy people at a gas pumps. Newspapers were no better, and talk shows railed over the situation. Many blamed the president. He blamed speculators. Others blamed the greed of the oil industry. Despite the emotion, nothing was new. We’ve been through this before. The country was first hit by fuel shortages and dramatic price increases in the 1970s. Long, desperate lines of motorists w... Full story
1. CHEMISTRY: What two elements are combined to make bronze? 2. MEASUREMENTS: How many furlongs are in a mile? 3. HISTORY: What was the first permanent English settlement in America? 4. ANATOMY: In which part of the body would you find the metatarsal bones? 5. GEOGRAPHY: In which city would you find the famous Carnaby Street? 6. LANGUAGE: What common item used to be known as “India rubber”? 7. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What does the Apgar Scale measure? 8. U.S. PRESIDENTS: Who was the only U.S. president to be sworn into office by his father? 9. SPO...
• It was British mathematician, philosopher and social critic Bertrand Russell who made the following sage observation: “Every advance in civilization has been denounced as unnatural while it was recent.” • If you’re like most adults, you have approximately 1,000 hairs per square inch of your scalp. That might seem like a lot, but consider the otter: Its 1 million hairs per square inch of skin make it the owner of the densest fur in the world. • Before the 19th century, it was declasse to wear clothing with pockets. All the well-dresse...
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. TOUPAL SENTENCED TO NINE MONTHS Frank Toupal, 62-year-old Arizona resident who was arrested Jan. 13 after he reportedly threatened his estranged wife with a pistol, was sentenced to nine months in jail Friday after he pleaded guilty to reduced charges. He was convicted on charges of second degree assault and felony harassment with domestic... Full story
Experience the Battle of Steptoe on its 154th anniversary Join Mahlon Kriebel as he takes you on a journey back in time to the Battle of Steptoe on Thursday, May 17 at 6:30 in the Norma McGregor Room at the Colfax Library. This multi-media presentation falls on the 154th anniversary of the historic and often misunderstood event. At 8:00 AM on May 17th, 1858, the Palouse Indians began firing on the Command of Edward Steptoe as they turned onto the Washington Territorial Road, today the site of Plaza. Steptoe’s troops, the Dragoons held fire a... Full story
