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Annual meeting of the Hatley Family Cemetery association will be at 10 a.m. Sunday, May 27, at the Whelan Grange Hall north of Pullman with a potluck luncheon to follow....
P.E.O. Thirteen members of Chapter AF met May 14 at the country home of Mae Schultz, hostess. Plans were discussed for the June meeting location. Jill Solbrack presented the program. She is a teacher in the Pullman School District and is interested in assisting her students with their reading skills. She shared a website she found where books can be downloaded free, www.wegivebooks.org. Next meeting will be Tuesday, May 29, at Peace Lutheran Church. Lynn Nelson will be hostess and Karen Groom co-hostess. Tina Scholz is in charge of the...
Almazan twins born Karson Wayne and Kacie Nicole were born May 15, 2012, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center to Lori and Adam Almazan. Birth weights were six pounds and seven pounds, seven ounces. Maternal grandparent is Kathy BeLieu of Garfield. Paternal grandparents are Randy and Karla Smith of Arizona. They join siblings Desiree, 19; Dustin, 17; Kaleb,15; Kimberlee, 15; Ashlee 12; Brady, 7; Rileigh, 7, and Ryder, 2....
Dream Big, Read! will be the theme of the Whitman County Library Summer Reading for 2012. Stop by the library to sign up for Summer Reading and visit the library’s website for a complete schedule. Eric Herman will bring his “Cool Tunes for Kids” to area schools this week to promote Summer Reading 2012 which is sponsored by the Friends of Whitman County Library. Herman’s videos, including the smash hit, “The Elephant Song”, are hugely popular online, with over 30 million views on YouTube, and his award-winning songs have been heard nationally...
Rosalia High School class of 2012 will be led by co-valedictorians and co-salutatorians. Kristin Paulson and Briann Maley have been named valedictorians. Kelsey Lindhag and Josie Daniels have been named salutatorians. Kristin, daughter of Arlin and Cindy Paulson, earned a 3.95 grade average. She has been an active member in FFA, FBLA, High School Band, NHS and the Rosalia volleyball, basketball and softball teams. Kristin was also elected as Executive ASB President by her peers for two consecutive years. She plans to attend Washington State... Full story
Haley Marie Moser, daughter of Dan and Nora Moser, and Erin Faith Weber, daughter of Gregory and Cherri Weber, have been named co-valedictorians of the Colton High School class of 2012. Jacob Frank Riedner, son of Gary and Teri Riedner, has been named as salutatorian. Moser plans to study speech and hearing sciences at University of Washington. During her high school career, she was involved in National Honor Society, Science Olympiad, FFA, jazz band, volleyball, basketball and softball. She was a youth sports coach and referee and Spanish...
Laura and Pete Appel live on Union Flat near Dusty, but Laura grew up on the other end of the flat. Her family homesteaded on Ryan Road south of Ewartsville. The daughter of Bill and Ruth Ryan, Laura has an older sister and a younger brother. She attended Sunnyside Elementary and Lincoln Middle School and graduated from Pullman High School. She played volleyball and basketball in high school and was involved in FFA. A Washington State University graduate, Laura earned a degree in hospitality/business management. Laura lived at home her first... Full story
Rosalia Lions club cared for the Pioneer Riggs Cemetery as a community project. The cemetery is located about two miles northeast of Rosalia. In 1889 the plot of ground was donated to the community as a burial ground by Samuel Riggs. The cemetery is on a hill top with a 360 degree view of surrounding hills covered in the different shades of spring green and a beautiful view of Steptoe Butte. The earliest marked grave is Willie Whitman, 1873 —- 1879. He was the son of the Whitmans who had the stage coach stop at that time. The last grave was for... Full story
Lamont Bonnie Swannack and Janet Bowman drove to Kennewick Saturday to watch Tommie Sue participate in the state Junior Rodeo finals. Sunday, Bill Swannack joined them to see her win the state finals. Because Tammi Sue has won many contests and awards during the season she will go to the National Rodeo Finals in Gallop, N.M. Dan and Jean Stromberger announce the birth of a great-granddaughter, Macy, born Saturday to Aaron and Sarah Stromberger in Spokane....
Dusty Gary and Marit Stueckle, Anna Stueckle, Daniel Stueckle and Daniel’s girlfriend, Lauren Armstrong, visited Colfax and Dusty May 5 from their homes in the Seattle area. They enjoyed time visiting and catching up with Gary’s sisters, Goldie Foss and Gloria Erickson in Colfax and also enjoyed a meal provided by Goldie and Al Foss. Anna, Daniel and Lauren took a side trip to the family (Gottlieb Stueckle) farm just south of Dusty. Linda Hennigar was in the Tri-Cities last week to attend grandson Wesley’s school band concert but he becam... Full story
Courtenay Perry, center, was crowned Miss Oakesdale 2012 at the pageant on Sunday. Princesses are Katie Larsen, left, and Katie Renstrom, right.... Full story
The History Channel • On June 8, 632, in Saudi Arabia, Muhammad, founder of Islam, dies in the arms of Aishah, his third wife. In 610, in a cave north of Mecca, Muhammad had a vision in which he heard God command him to become the Arab prophet of the “true religion.” He began having religious revelations, which he collected as the Qur’an. • On June 5, 1933, the United States goes off the gold standard, a monetary system in which currency is backed by gold. The Great Depression of the 1930s had frightened the public into hoarding gold. Roo... Full story
Preparations are underway for the fourth Palouse Home and Garden Tour to be June 23. The benefit for the Holy Trinity Church, owned by the Whitman County Historical Society, will be the latest tour over the past seven years. The itinerary for 2012 will include six homes and gardens in Palouse, including a perennial favorite garden and a turn-of-the-century restored farmhouse. Funds raised will go to replacing siding shingles in the chapel, as well as possibly contributing to the re-leading of...
May Day success May Day Committee chairmen Chris Cochran and Connie Kriebel did a wonderful job to make our May Day festival last weekend in Garfield a real success. I don’t remember a parade being that long in a long time, and I’ve been around quite a while! We were given a beautiful day with many happy memories. Darlene Perkins, Garfield Kudos Kudos and praise to Huber Action Freight for speaking the truth with their latest sign. They have taken a stand and for this they deserve applause. We should all as Christians speak and use the tru...
Fifth District Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, who officially filed for re-election for a fifth term in the House of Representatives, made a tour through the area Monday. Rep. McMorris Rodgers is one of four candidates who filed for the position. She is being challenged by Rich Cowan, Democrat; Randall Yearout, Republican, and Ian Moody who listed no party preference. The congresswoman and her aides met with farmers and ag suppliers early Monday at McGregor Co. She later told the Gazette one of her chief concerns for the rest of the year will be...
W. BRUCE CAMERON Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. In last week’s column, I explained how my neighbor Tom has blackmailed me into going on a canoe trip with him by threatening to withhold his wife’s fried chicken. I don’t know how his wife, Emily, makes her chicken so delicious, but I’ll bet she never intended it to be used as a weapon. At this point, we’ve managed to get the canoe off the roof of the SUV, and we sit in the wilderness parking lot trying to decide whether we should lighten the cargo load... Full story
When the Environmental Protection Agency was formed in 1970, our environmental problems were easy to see: factories belched black smoke, leaded gasoline fouled our air and water and rivers were so polluted they actually caught fire. Today, 42 years later, much has been accomplished. Our air is clearer, our rivers are cleaner and aquatic life is thriving in our streams and estuaries. We have made so much progress that the remaining issues are literally microscopic, measured in parts per trillion. Today, science is the key to establishing if a... Full story
THERE’S something really wrong in this country when we have so many people out of work and unable to realize the American dream of owning your own home because of sky-high prices, yet we have a president jetting all over the country day after day meeting and dining with people eager and able to pay up to $40,000 for the privilege. Barack Obama picked up $15 million at one of those $40,000 a plate feasts at the home of actor George Clooney, and during that same weekend ate in Seattle with 50 couples who forked over $35,800 apiece and sat down at... Full story
Despite the solemnity often attached to it, Memorial Day is a good time to smile. In my case, one reason to smile is dear Auntie Grace. I would visit her often at her beach house. Sometimes a cousin would join us. Neither of us were yet in school. Auntie Grace would wake us just as the sun was rising and send us off fishing at the public pier by ourselves. She gave us a drop line and a quarter each. We’d fish for a while and then go to the bait shack and buy our very own cup of hot chocolate. We always got a fortune back in change. These w... Full story
Colton girls will aim at a fourth straight softball title when they open 1B state action at Yakima’s Gateway Park Friday morning. The Wildcats will arrive at Yakima with the number-one seed for the SE after topping Touchet 6-4 in a Saturday home qualifier for the district title. Both teams will be among the eight teams in the Yakima entry. A 3-0 run will nail the title. Colton will start at 11 against Curlew, the number two team out of District 7. Curlew was a 15-1 victim of the powerhouse Selkirk team in the District 7 title game Saturday S... Full story
Facing a limited supply of tickets to the state 2B track show in Cheney this week, tracksters in the SE district had to scramble to extend their season to the state finals. The two-day track show at Clarkston High offered three state tickets for each event on the girls side and two on the boys side. The St. John/Endicott-LaCrosse/ Washtucna girls team placed second in the eight-team event with 97 points behind the 189 rolled up by Asotin’s Panther girls. Distance veteran Heather Siegel won the 3200 with a 12:13 after cutting 11 seconds off her...
Colton’s Wildcat boys will face a familiar foe at a new state playoff site Saturday when they go up against Almira/Coulee/Hartline in the state 1B title game. The state B championships have been moved from Yakima to Rotary Field in Ellensburg. The Wildcats and ACH Warriors are booked into the 4 p.m. game Saturday. Both contenders qualified after making 2-0 runs last week in the regional rounds Saturday. Colton rolled to Central Valley and shut out Northport 8-0 in the first game and Odessa/Harrington 5-2 in the semi-final game ACH will make a...
After booking a split in a long day of District 7 finals a Spokane’s Merkel Fields, the Colfax Bulldogs will depart for Yakima’s Gateway park for another shot at a state 2B softball trophy. Colfax Friday will play LaConner at 9 a.m. in the first round. The Bulldogs and Braves are bracketed opposite DeSales and Pateros. Losers of those first round games will play at 3 p.m. Friday and the winners will play at 7 p.m. to advance in the 16-team entry. Colfax last year booked a 3-2 run at state, but came back without one of the four trophies. Sat... Full story
St. John/Endicott’s Michal Schuster earned a spot in the championship foursome after shooting a first round 88 at the state B golf championships on the Oak Brook Country Club at Lakewood Tuesday. The state finalists played the first round in the rain. Final round cut the entries in half with 40 boys and 20 girls advanced. Schuster was set to tee off after Gazette press time Wednesday in the noon grouping after shooting the third best girls score on the par-72 course. Kasey Johnson of Colfax was the top area boy duffer after round one, s... Full story
Snake River spring chinook fishing closed Friday below Ice Harbor Dam and near Little Goose Dam. John Whalen, eastern region fish program manager for the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, said catch rates and chinook run estimates for the Snake would be reached sooner than the department anticipated. More catches would put fish populations in danger of the federal Endangered Species Act. The closure does not affect spring chinook fisheries in the six miles below Lower Granite Dam, or in the Clarkston area. Both will remain open until... Full story
