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8 years ago The Commoner May 17, 1889 William Chambers, one of the quartet of tramps brought down from Farmington a few weeks ago and lodged in the county jail on a charge of assault, the particulars of which were published at the time, escaped from the jail yard through the help of some of his comrades on Wednesday morning by scaling the stockade and has not been recaptured although Sheriff McLean and deputies have used every endeavor to run him down. He is described as being 30 years old, five feet 10 inches high, weight 150 pounds, eyes bl...
The lights are down, the music has played and the flashbulbs are gone. Mr. Bulldog 2014 has been crowned and the proceeds have been counted. For the annual event held Monday, April 28, in the Colfax High Auditorium, senior boys competed in a mock pageant to raise funds for the FFA program. This year, in a superhero theme, Austin Getz as Allergy Boy took the title while 840 pounds of food was donated and $435 in cash raised. “The food was twice as much this year and the money was down s...
May 19 - May 23 AT COLFAX SCHOOLS: Monday: Pizza, pineapple, caesar salad, ice cream. Tuesday: Mashed potatoes with brown gravy, beef patty, roll, corn, fruit. Wednesday: Popcorn chicken, mac-n-cheese, cooked carrots, fruit. Thursday: Biscuit with gravy, egg patty, tater sticks, fruit juice. Friday: Hot dog, Sun Chips, BBQ beans, fruit, frosted cookie. AT COLTON SCHOOL: Monday: Bread sticks with sauce, cheese sticks, salad, fruit. Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, salad, fries, fruit. Wednesday: Rib-b-que sandwich, fries, green beans, fruit. Thursday:...
*For full obituaries, see the Weelky Paper section for this week's Gazette online. Carol June Stoner Nora Nelle Eastburn Mary J. Brinlee Mary Josephine Brinlee, 60, Colfax, died last Wednesday, May 7, 2014, at the Whitman Health & Rehabilitation Center in Colfax. Private family graveside services have been conducted and burial was at the Winona Cemetery. Born Aug. 16, 1953, in San Bernardino, Calif., to Walter and Ann Pavelak, she graduated from high school in 1971 at Roseberg, Ore. She and William Brinlee were married Feb. 4, 1976, in Las... Full story
Lacrosse LaCrosse FFA had a very successful year at the Spokane Junior Livestock Show. The show started with success in the meats contest where LaCrosse placed second. Team members were Jason Wigen and Cole Evans (tied for fifth individual), Jessica Guske (10th individual), David Alguea, Graham BeDell, Abby McGregor and Weston Miller. Evans also won the State FFA Livestock Judging Contest by topping 177 participants from around Washington. Ten members exhibited 16 animals including 11 goats,... Full story
Thursday, May 15 Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Endicott – 7 p.m. – Book Club – Join the discussion of Kate Morton’s “The Secret Keeper.” Everyone’s invited. Friday, May 16 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Endicott, St. John and Uniontown – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Friday. Saturday, May 17 Albion – 2 p.m. – Storytime and Craft – Fun stories and craft pro... Full story
Garfield-Palouse Middle School Choir, directed by Rebecca Hemphill, sang the National Anthem before the WSU-USC baseball game on Friday, May 2. They have been singing at school sporting events throughout the year. Members of the group are Desi Brown, Ainslee Marcus, Emmy Gregg, Emily Perkins, Payson Griner, Keely Burnes, Torii Rogers, Emily Baggot, Lenae Caudle and Hope Kriebel....
Ride for Cure set for June 8 A fourth annual motorcycle Ride for a Cure benefit has been scheduled June 8 as part of the Relay for Life. Registration will be at the Colfax Les Schwab lot in Colfax from 9 to 10 a.m. with riders departing on the tour at 10:30. The tour will include a tour of the Palouse Country which will conclude at Fredneck's Tavern in Rockford. Drawings and door prizes will be included. For more information, call Howie Leinweber in Colfax or Julie Hawley in Pullman. Mobile Food Bank set for Colfax stop Whitman County chapter o...
Endicott The first Flea Market in Endicott sponsored by the Community Club was Saturday with 38 spots being rented. Art contest winners were first place Sophia Anderson; Jonah Isaacs and Emily Pierce, tied for second. The crowd was steady all day. Lorna and Greg Burns spent Mothers’ Day weekend at Whitefish, Mont., where grandson Garrett Burns was a player for the 4-13 Titan Lacrosse team from Greenacres. The previous Sunday Lorna and friend Ann Donaldson of Coeur d' Alene Lake participated i...
Chandler Pfaff, daughter of David and April Pfaff, has been named valedictorian of the 2014 class of Garfield/Palouse High School with an all-A grade average for her high school years. Chandler served as president of the Vikings FFA chapter and played on volleyball, basketball and softball teams. She was a Palouse Empire Fair rodeo queen and earned state FFA and Star Chapter Farmer degrees. She plans to attend Eastern Washington University and study occupational or physical therapy. Taylor Jo...
Angela Beggs is enjoying working for an organization that she has belonged to for years. As the new manager of the Colfax Eagles Aerie, she is pleased to be working with people she knows well and for an active community organization. The daughter of Brenda Wickizer, Angie grew up in Colfax and her grandparents are Rod and Delores Wickizer. She played volleyball and softball in high school, but was quiet and introverted and moved to an alternative high school where she graduated. She worked in fo... Full story
Dusty Saturday, May 17, is scheduled as a work day at the Dusty Cemetery Saturday beginning at 8 a.m. A meeting will follow. Bring shovels, rakes, weed whackers and bars and blocks to lift stones. Nine ladies from the First Baptist Church in Union Gap held their annual retreat at the Parsonage Bed and Breakfast May 1-2. Kim and Vicki Broeckel joined Mike and Michelle Carver Sunday for the Historical House Tour of Brown's Addition in Spokane. Sponsored by MAC museum, it showcased six homes and gardens on the walking tour. Larry and Di Brink...
Colfax High School jazz band won its division at the Mt. Hood Jazz Festival over the weekend at Gresham, Ore. Saturday's win was the fourth time Colfax has won the top trophy for its division at Mt. Hood. The band also won two years ago. Band director Mike Morgan said some of the scores this year topped any previous scores in the 20 years the band has made the trip to compete in the Oregon festival. Colfax competed against four Oregon bands. The band played its jazz competition set which it...
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. Bike rodeo at Colfax Colfax youngsters Saturday turned out for the Colfax Bike Rodeo. The obstacle course was provided by the Whitman County Sheriff’s Department and the Colfax Police Department, Free bike helmets were provided by the Colfax Thrifty Grandmothers. Car seat checks were provided b... Full story
Registration is now open for the 14th annual Fishing Kids Day at Gilchrist Pond slated for Saturday, June 14. Pre-registered youngsters between 5 and 14 are invited to Gilchrist Pond from 9 a.m. to 1:30 p.m., for the annual event. Up to 200 kids are expected to attend. A nominal $10 registration fee provides each angler with a Zebco rod and reel, bait, T-shirt and a 30-minute time slot to fish. Flyers were distributed to elementary schools in Whitman County during April and will be available at the Whitman County 4H Office, county and Pullman... Full story
Eleven Campfire Saturday programs have been scheduled to date for the Kamiak Butte Park amphitheater. The program dates include a wide variety of subjects and two guided hikes in the park. May 17 - Wild flower hike to summit of Kamiak Butte led by Dan Leonard, 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. May 31 - Women’s lives in the early Palouse, Kathy Meyer, 7 p.m. June 7 - Man tracking - search and rescue, Anne Pillers, 7 p.m. June 14 - Palouse Discovery Science Center, Tiffany Sheeley, 7 p.m. June 21 - Campfire sing-along led by Tina Hilding and Von Walden, 7 p.m. J...
A trip to trace Russian ancestry turned into educating farmers in foreign lands as told in a book by a local farmer. Lee R. McGuire, who lives on Cashup Flat, made his first trip to the former Soviet Union in 1991 to search for his mother’s relatives in the Volga River region. After that trip, he contacted an organization which implemented programs assisting Russian farmers “to uproot their entrenched controlled way of living and farming into a more friendly economic society.” “My love of agri... Full story
Real estate sales Maria A. Lopez and Jose Luis Gonzalez, Alameda, Calif., to Grant C. Bafus, Liberty Lake, house on NE Indiana Street in Pullman, $193,000, April 29. Smix Properties 1 LLC, Brush Prairie, to Grant C. Bafus, Liberty Lake, house on NE Monroe Street in Pullman, $317,500, April 29. T.W. Love Farm LLC, to Jon N. and Jonelle A. Olson, Garfield, agriculture land near Garfield, $330,000, April 29. Daniel A. Leon and Beth S. Swanson, Pullman, to Scott Allen and Julie Christine Bean, Albion, house on NW Valhalla Drive in Pullman,... Full story
Last month, an inspector general for the Treasury Department revealed that from 2010 to 2012 the Internal Revenue Service handed out $1 million in bonuses to 1,150 workers who owed back taxes. Over the same period, the IRS paid out an additional $1.8 million in bonuses to workers with disciplinary problems, including misusing government credit cards, drug use, threats of violence and unemployment benefits fraud. Give us a break! Apparently, IRS workers don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of us who pay their salaries. According to t...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. When I look up at the sky, the one thing I don’t expect to see is my feet. That’s exactly the view I got, though, when a patch of wet, slippery floor caused my legs to go out from underneath me and my head to smack the ground as if I were river dancing upside down. It was like that scene in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World” where Ethel Merman slips on a banana peel, only I think it was funnier when she did it. I hit my head so hard I saw “Dancing With the Stars” — thou...
Jeremiah Denton, the Vietnam War POW who died in March at age 89, uttered one of the great statements of defiance in American history. In 1965, he was shot down in his A-6 during a bombing run over North Vietnam. He became a captive for more than seven years and endured an unimaginable regime of torture, humiliation and isolation, managing to retain his dignity and spirit even as his captors went to hideous lengths to snuff them out. Soon after his capture, Denton was taken to Hoa Lo Prison, or the Hanoi Hilton, where he led the resistance to t... Full story
So now we know that it was his girlfriend V. Stiviano who recorded Donald Sterling’s racist rant as they bickered while watching his Los Angeles Clippers in the NBA playoffs. And that he apparently knew she was, which is really weird. It’s too bad the mystery has apparently been solved, because it was fun to think it was the work of the National Security Agency, now widely described as “the only agency in government that listens.” Even the NSA head finds that line funny. But in the NBA, no one found anything amusing about Sterling being r... Full story
“The Man Who Came to Dinner” is an old play and movie about a guest who never leaves. He drops in for a visit and then takes up residence. It is a comedy. But, there is nothing funny about Colfax’s version of the story. In this version, voracious hoofed beasts settle in town, make themselves at home and never leave. Many townspeople are furious at the invaders. Others surreptitiously encourage them to stay by feeding them and making them feel welcome. “Look! It’s Bambi,” they say. The visitors, of course, are deer. They have been here for so...
Backyard Harvest received $566 from the Moscow Food Co-op’s “Dime in Time” community donation program in April. The program was created to support local, non-profit organizations. Backyard Harvest’s mission is to provide better access to fresh, locally grown food to low-income individuals in northern Idaho and eastern Washington. The funds will be used to support their Shop the Market program which allows SNAP recipients to use food stamp dollars....
Change has come to the Uniontown Main Street. Last week’s closing of the Uniontown Deli marked the third business to close in recent months. Green Parrot Ice Cream closed last year while, across the street on the corner, the Vineyard Vault shut down after a short run which began in the summer of 2012. Green Parrot owner Cheryl Waller also runs Grandma Lela’s oatmeal, which she founded in 2012 after opening the Green Parrot. Once she got to the point that she couldn’t keep the Green Parrot going...
