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The annual Ride for a Cure benefit will be motoring through the Palouse Sunday, June 5. The sixth annual benefit ride will meet at the Colfax Les Schwab for registration at 9 a.m. Sunday, with the riders leaving by 10:30 a.m. Donations will be accepted at registration Sunday morning. Deanna Leinweber, one of the organizers for the event, said the ride was started in memory of riders who have died from cancer. “We lost people that we rode with,” she said. “It's been going on for eight or nine years, but only six with the Relay.” Leinweb...
Ballots cast in the state's May 24 election set a record for a presidential primary, according to a report from the Office of Secretary of State. Spokesman David Ammons said nearly 1.5 million ballots had been received by May 26. The election was May 24, and about 1.36 million had been counted as of Thursday, May 26. All of the 1.5 million that have arrived were postmarked before or on May 24, so they could still be counted. Ammons added that a number of the remaining ballots statewide will be going to county canvassing boards for approval,...
A group of youngsters play at the basketball hoop in the Colfax pool in the summer of 2015. Gazette intern reporter Summer is just around the corner, and so are the openings of pools throughout the county. The Palouse Pool, as well as the Tekoa Municipal Pool, Rosalia Pool, Colfax Swimming Pool and Reaney Park Pool are all almost ready to open. TEKOA MUNICIPAL POOL The opening day of the Tekoa Municipal Pool and Reaney Park Pool is June 10. Tekoa opens at 1:00 p.m., and will be open Monday thru...
Dusty Daughters of the late Bob and Marie Ackerman, who spent the weekend at the Parsonage Bed and Breakfast, included Robin Legg, Sisters, Ore.; Ann Petzel, Lake of the Ozarks, Mo.; Laura Burnside McElligott, North Bend, Ore. and Lisa Emtman, Valleyford. They visited the cemeteries of Dusty, Hay, LaCrosse, Endicott and Colfax during their stay. They are the granddaughters of the late Henry and Betty Ackerman who lived in Dusty and donated the land where the Dusty cemetery is located. They attended the Country Bible Church morning worship...
Avalon Health Care Group and KIP Development announced they have entered into an agreement under which a 52,000 square foot senior living community will be constructed adjacent to Pullman Regional Hospital. It will replace the existing Avalon Care Center-Pullman skilled nursing facility located across town. The 82-bed campus will feature a family style design with three distinct neighborhoods: 48 beds dedicated to skilled nursing, 17 to memory care and 17 assisted living. The new Avalon will also feature restaurant style dining, room service, f...
Endicott Endicott Cemetery District had the cemetery grounds manicured for Memorial Day weekend. The flags of the military services and deceased veterans were flying high throughout the weekend. Saturday, May 28, the Endicott Food Center was the gathering place for many of Endicott families and friends. Among those attending were Daryl and Kathy Storment, Ila Stuart, Myrna Morasch, Connie Taylor, Ted Scheider, Bertie Honn, Greg and Jan Iriton, Pat Byers, Bill Hughes, Tim and Denise Gerlitz, Helen Mae Helt, Dan Helt, Phil, Kaylynn, John and... Full story
A petition for a vote for the recall of Garfield Mayor Raymond McCown was submitted to Whitman County officials last week. The petition was submitted to the county auditor, who in turn forwarded it to the county prosecutor for review. Under provisions of state law, the prosecutor is required to review the petition and draft a ballot proposal. Prosecutor Denis Tracy Friday filed a petition with the court to schedule a hearing to determine the sufficiency of the recall charge and the adequacy of the ballot synopsis which he prepared. “I really ha... Full story
This photo, shot by Rod Schwartz, is titled “One Fine Morning.” Dahmen Barn's June exhibit will be a photography invitational. All photos on display are of the Palouse region taken within the past year. There are entries of photos printed on canvas, metal and traditional photography paper. Amateur, well-known, local photographers and photographers from around the US display photos of the Palouse through June 26. Photographers had to abide by the following rules. The photos were to be taken of...
Mary Ann Wigen and Jerine Grey with items Jerine brought home from their trip to Russia. The stacking dolls are traditionally Russian, and the little berry figurines are common. Hundreds, if not thousands, of Whitman County residents are descendants of the Volga Deutsch. While many immigrants came directly from Germany to the United States, the Volga Deutsch made a long trip, with more than a century spent on the Volga River region of Russia. Jerine Grey and Mary Ann Wigen are two such local cit...
Colfax senior Sidney Sheer, who hit 3-for-3 in the last game, heads for the plate in a Colfax rally against Dayton. Colfax softball players Friday posted a short run at the state 2B tournament with two straight losses, one to Warden on a shutout and the second to Dayton on the 10-run rule after an amazing Colfax rally. The two-game stop at the state show wrapped up the Colfax season at 16-10 with a rough run in the playoff rounds after they stacked a 15-3 record in the league campaign. Colfax...
The Colfax boys golf team finished fourth in the state finals at Meadow Wood in Liberty Lake May 24-25 with a 25.5 team total. Ilwaco took the team honors with a 29.5. The Bulldogs booked the score with two freshmen in the final round. Augie Allenbach tied for sixth place with a 158, and Bennett Gray tied for ninth with a 163. Coach Steve Jones credited Allenbach with taking 10 strokes off his first-round score with a 74 on the second day. Allenbach actually had a one-under score rolling on the par 72 course until he booked a triple bogey in th...
Meghann Ferguson Jasmin Seaman The face of the Gazette staff is changing slightly this summer. Meghann Ferguson and Jasmin Seaman, both Washington State University students, have been hired as interns at the Gazette this summer to fill some staffing vacancies. Ferguson, who began work May 4, jumped into the position of intern reporter, filling in while another reporter was on vacation for two weeks. “At first, it was a little overwhelming because I kind of just dove in, but it gave me a good i...
Oakesdale girls tied Mt. Vernon Christian for the state 1B title Saturday, May 28, with 69 points. The Nighthawks were led by Anne Hockett who set a record at 58.3 in the 400 meter run and won both of the hurdle races. Emma Perry also won the 800 for the ‘hawks. Oakesdale and Mt. Vernon Christian went down to the wire with MVC a point ahead when the team totals were announced near the end of the meet. The Nighthawks gained enough points in the late going to erase the one-point gap and book the tie. Both teams went into the last running e...
Colfax senior Scout Cai soared to 12-3 and a state 2B pole vault record at Cheney. Colfax girls finished sixth in the state 2B track meet with 51.5 points when the action wrapped up Saturday, May 28, at EWU’s Roos Field in Cheney. St. George’s, which collected a stack of points in the distance races, topped the 2B girls with 71 points. The Dragons topped Okanogan, the pre-meet favorite, by a half point. Okanogan and Napavine were in a chase for most of the meet, but Morika Morelan of the Dra...
Jan and Charles (Charlie) Reed have been named the 2016 Rosalia Battle Days Grand Marshals. Both Charlie and Jan are retired teachers, with Charlie having taught in Cheney and Jan in Rosalia. “The Reeds have always been there for the community,” said Pat Voge of the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce. “If anyone needs help, they’re always there. “We look for people in the community who are outstanding citizens and help out the best they can,” said Voge. “We are just giving them the recognition they deserve....
The Champions: Coach Pat Doumit, assistant Justin Erwin, Cameron Bean, Peter Schultheis, Carter Dahmen, Brady Chadwick, Grant Kinzer, Reece Chadwick, assistant Taylor Spence, Nick Schultheis, Luke Vining, Matt Wolf, Tom Wolf, Brady Stout and Parker Druffel. Colton junior Daylinn Smith bats in the state semifinals against Almira/Coulee/Hartline. Colton beat Pomeroy 14-6 to take its seventh state 1B softball championship in eight years. Is it Gainesville, is it Green Bay, is it Boston, is it...
A spray plane passes just inches above the crop it is dusting Saturday on the east side of Highway 195 near Rosalia as spring work progresses across the county.... Full story
The 21st edition of Relay for Life in Colfax was almost derailed last week when event organizer Gail Webster found out that McDonald Park, the chosen location for the event, was not actually available. Webster said she had previously been told a baseball tournament at the park was scheduled to end at 6 p.m. June 10, so Relay organizers could set up the event throughout the day and start at 6 p.m. the same day of the tournament. However, the baseball tournament actually has games slated for 3, 6 and 9 p.m. June 10. “We couldn’t have both eve...
Ferguson Gazette intern reporter The 47th annual Rosalia Battle Days offers an array of events from Friday through Sunday this weekend. Battle Days was launched in 1970 by members of the Odd Fellows Lodge, and the name stems from the Indian War of 1878 when Col. Edward Steptoe was turned back by warriors from a coalition of tribes and made his stand on the east hill of Rosalia, now the site of the Steptoe monument. This year’s festivities will begin on Friday, June 3, with a teen dance sponsored by Miss Rosalia Royalty in the Rosalia High S...
An honor guard from Fairchild Air Force Base presented the colors at the start of the honor ceremony for veterans Monday at the Colfax cemetery. The event, which drew a large crowd, was conducted among 270 veterans' flags that were posted at the cemetery...
The first of Colfax’s ‘First Thursday’ events is booked today with a full slate of vendors and fun for a Bingo Block Party. First Thursday events begin at 3 p.m. and conclude at 6:30 p.m. Valoree Gregory, Colfax’s unified executive director, said she is excited to see how the First Thursday shebang pans out. “We hope it goes well. Since we’ve never really done it before, we don’t know,” she said. “But we’ve got the word out there, and we hope people will come out. It will be something fun to do with kids and family and gets people downtown.” G... Full story
Graduating seniors will take the “Pomp and Circumstance” march over the next two weekends to receive their diplomas. Eight county schools combined will graduate 129 students, and Pullman High School will graduate 158, making 287 county-wide for the class of 2016. That total is down 19 from the 306 students in the class of 2015. The 287 graduate count is down by almost 50 students from 2011 when 323 seniors received their diplomas. It is also the lowest figure seen since 2013, when 297 students graduated. Colfax, Colton, Garfield/Palouse, Tek...
