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Tekoa residents gather to listen to speech by Teddy Roosevelt, May 26, 1903. For more pictures of Tekoa and President Roosevelt’s Whistle Stop Tour, please visit the Whitman County Rural Heritage website at www.whitco.lib.wa.us. President Teddy Roosevelt's Whistle Stop Tour of 1903 will be the topic of a presentation by Scott Woodward on Saturday, June 18, at 5 p.m. in the Tekoa Library. President Roosevelt visited Tekoa May 26, 1903, as part of his inaugural reception and tour. The tour b...
Dusty Linda Hennigar, Jim Moore and Floyd and Judi Overstreet attended the graduation party for Trevor Roberts, son of Lori and Vic Roberts and grandson of Judi Overstreet, in Kennewick last Saturday, June 4. Trevor graduated from Kamiakin High School. Hennigar and Moore also visited Hennigar’s daughter and son-in-law, Tami and Jay Banks, while in the Tri-cities. Visitors at the home of Steve and Becky Camp last Thursday and Friday were Steve’s daughter Stefanie and her friend Jules, both from Kauai, Hawaii. Ed and Joan Broeckel hosted the...
The public is invited to tour a new CHS Primeland facility at the Port of Wilma next week. The new facility, the Port of Wilma Agronomy Hub Plant, will have its grand opening celebration next Thursday, June 23, at the site across the river from Clarkston. The grand opening begins at 10 a.m. and will include open house tours and vendor displays to start. The Agronomy Hub Plant, a 70,000-square-foot warehouse, will store dry fertilizers and also has space for 2.5 million gallons of storage for liquid fertilizers. The Port of Whitman recently...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Joseph Martin Regel, 39, and Lisa Kristine Pearson, 34, both Pullman, June 6. Gary Dale Storment, 79, Endicott, and Christina Kay Smith, 68, St. John, June 6. Matthew Paul Decker, 28, Spokane, and Rebecca Christine Saunders, 21, Pullman, June 7. Andrew Michael Gilder, 27, Troy, and Courtney Rey Smith, 26, Pullman, June 8. Nicholas Patrick Wright, 24, Oakesdale, and Brianna Michelle Reynolds, 22, Colfax, June 8. Aaron John Haugen, 23, and Emily Jane Everett, 24, both Pullman, June 9. Claire Elizabeth Richter, 25, Harrisonburg,...
A weather spotter training session will be next Tuesday, June 21, at 6 p.m. at the WSU Smith Center for Undergraduate Education, Room 518. All spotter training sessions are free and open to the public. A meteorologist from the Spokane National Weather Service will conduct the class....
The Washington Office of the Secretary of State has announced key dates for the upcoming primary and general elections. David Ammons, communications director at the office, released the table Monday. The first key date is coming up this weekend on June 18, which is when military and overseas ballots will be mailed. The next key date is Monday, July 4, which is the deadline for online or mail-in voter registrations and updates. Counties across the state will begin mailing primary ballots to voters 11 days later on July 15 for the Aug. 2 primary... Full story
Washington’s next economic development plan may be written by Oregon voters next November. The plan’s centerpiece is a new gross receipts tax which would transform Oregon from one of the nation’s lowest business tax burden states to one of the nation’s highest. IP28 (Initiative Petition) would create a 2.5 percent tax on total sales for companies operating in Oregon. The threshold is $25 million or more each year. If enacted, it would set a $30,000 annual minimum tax for these corporations and then tack on another 2.5 percent on sales above $... Full story
Taken away I am writing this letter because I can, thank God, still share my opinion as an American citizen. This past year I have been feeling like many of my freedoms are being taken away without my opinion being considered. For example, last year the Washington Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction (OSPI) changed my teaching certification without notifying me or the district I teach in. When my administrator called OSPI to ask why they would do that to hundreds of teachers throughout the state without notification the answer was...
Yale English majors are demanding a safe space from Chaucer. In a petition to the English department, Yale undergraduates declare that a required two-semester seminar on Major English Poets is a danger to their well-being. Never mind that the offending poets, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, et al., are the foundational writers in the English language. It's as if chemistry students objected to learning the periodic table. The root of the plaint against the seminar is, of course, the usual PC bean-counting, where prodigious...
Of all the Republicans displaying their two faces in accommodating Donald Trump, none is more obnoxious than Paul Ryan. Ryan has spent years carefully constructing his own pedestal upon which he has placed himself as the conscientious conservative intellectual who is above petty politics. It was the platform from which he maneuvered to become House speaker. It turns out that the pedestal is nothing more than a sanctimonious mirage. By endorsing Trump, while at the same time expressing concern about the GOP presumptive nominee's various... Full story
The worst mass shooting in U.S. history occurred in Orlando, Florida, over the weekend. The current count of dead is 49. An additional 53 were injured. The scene was a gay nightclub. The shooter was a radicalized young man with jihadist sympathies. He had been twice investigated by the FBI, although the investigations ended without any charges. Just before the shooting he legally purchased two guns, the ones used in the massacre. The outrage over the murders is intense. The response is worldwide. Millions grieve over the tragedy and seek...
Whitman County Commissioners Monday, June 6, approved a $31,400 purchase of guardrail ends and terminals for the Sand Road Edmundson Bridge project southeast of Pullman. The project, awaiting Army Corps of Engineers approval, may start this week or next month. The county Public Works Department built some of the needed guardrail and will now buy ends and terminals from Frank Gurney Inc. of Spokane. An increase in traffic on Sand Road has led to the need to widen the 19-foot-wide Edmundson Bridge on the 25-foot-wide road. The roadway serves as...
Youth from Garfield, Columbia, Asotin and Whitman counties ages 8-12 are invited to register for this summer’s 4-H “Introduction to Robotics” camps. The first event is scheduled for June 27-29, 1-4 p.m. at Pomeroy Elementary School. The following week, July 6-8, camp will be offered in Dayton from 1-4 p.m. at the Columbia County Fairgrounds Youth Building. Colfax will be the next site, scheduled for July 13-15, 9 a.m. to noon, in the auditorium of the Public Service Building, 310 N. Main Street, Colfax. The registration fee of $20 per child... Full story
Colfax’s Concrete River Festival will be July 7-10. The theme for this year will be “Crazy Days.” “From the 1970s through the 1990s, Colfax’s summer festival was called Crazy Days and it was quite popular,” said Colfax Mayor Todd Vanek. “We’re hoping to capitalize on the popularity and nostalgia with the theme of ‘Crazy Days’ for this year’s Concrete River Festival.” A full schedule of events is planned for CRF, beginning with Colfax’s First Thursday event, a monthly collaboration of the Colfax Downtown Association and the Colfax Chamber of...
Gazette Reporter Intern LeadingAge Washington announced Monday Rep. Joe Schmick of Colfax and Sen. Linda Evans Parlette of Wenatchee have been selected for the 2016 Legislator of the Year award. They were awarded at the annual Awards of Excellence ceremony. “I am really happy we could come with a new formula for MediCare folks,” said Schmick. “I am really glad to have worked with all sides to accomplish this.” The LeadingAge Washington Legislator of the Year recognizes state policymakers who have made significant contributions in advocat...
Colfax Chamber President Nancy Cochran speaks at a general Chamber members luncheon June 8, at the Hyde Out tavern. “As much as we live here and all have friends here, we forget to tell them what's going on,” she said. “So I've invited people who have things going on to come and talk.” Updates and items were given regarding the Perkins House, Concrete River Days, Hill-Ray, Colfax Arts Council, Whitman County Library, Best Western and other topics....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers awarded a contract May 9, 2016, to a Spokane company to conduct repairs to the downstream navigation lock gates at Little Goose Lock and Dam on the lower Snake River. The approximately $2.18-million contract was competitively awarded to Dix Corporation. The purpose of the work is to increase reliability and safe lock gate operations at Little Goose Dam. Following an emergency outage in 2014 to repair a failing gudgeon arm, additional work is required during a shutdown next winter to complete replacement of the...
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. NEW COLFAX POLICE OFFICER Officer Jaelene Bryan logged her first day of duty with the Colfax Police Department Monday, June 13, after graduating from 19 weeks of basic law enforcement training in Spokane under the auspices of the Washington Criminal Justice Training Commission last week. Bryan joined the department last September and served as... Full story
Whitman Cougars, now 5-5, topped Coeur d’Alene twice Tuesday at McDonald Park with a 13-0 shutout and an 11-4 closer. Connor Parrish allowed two hits, struck out three and walked three in the opener. Jeff Marlow tagged a three-run triple and Parrish had three singles. The Cougars took a 3-0 lead in the second game, but the Lakers came back to notch a 4-3 lead in the fourth. Brady Lee took the mound and shut down the visitors.... Full story
Latest tally for next week’s All American Basketball Camps session at Colfax totals 30 teams. Colfax Coach Corey Baerlocher said that will bring approximately 300 girls to the camp session which will run Monday through Thursday. The basketball teams reside in classrooms at the school and other assigned spaces, and in the past some teams have opted to put up tents. Baerlocher said the format will be to assign eight teams to one of the four gyms for competition. Play will start at 9 a.m and will continue until 8 p.m. each day. Last year the c...
Webb's Slough will observe its 10th year Saturday when sprint boat teams return to St. John for the opening round of American Spring Boat competition. Amanda Webb reports 30 teams have been signed up to compete in the three classes for the day's events. "We'll have some of the crowd favorites back, but there has also been a lot of changes in ownership in the off season," she reported. Saturday's card at mid-week included seven boats in the unlimited class which will be the largest lineup for that part of the competition. Skylar Smith will be...
Zack Skone, top, wrestles his charge in the senior boys chute dogging event June 11 at Palouse Empire Fairgrounds. Talon Hutton fights for control in the boys calf dogging. Evyn Hauser rounds the end in the senior girls poles event. Colton Cameron hangs on for a successful ride in the Lil' People sheep riding event. More than 160 junior rodeo members competed Saturday and Sunday at the 41st annual Colfax Junior Rodeo at the Palouse Empire Fairground. The rodeo included a schedule of 54 events...
Gazette intern reporter The event was started in 1972 by Norma McGregor, as well as others who were interested in saving the cabin and house built by James A. Perkins. The cabin, built in 1870 and the house, built in 1886, have been around to celebrate the Whitman County Historical Society's Perkins House and Ice Cream Social, which is always on the last Sunday of June. This year’s will be on June 26 from 1-4 p.m. on the grounds of the Perkins House on Perkins Ave. This year is the 130th anniversary of the house. The event will feature ice crea...
The new 3,000-square foot splash pad at Pullman’s Reaney Park features 10 spray toys. It was dedicated June 10. Gazette intern reporter Residents and city officials of Pullman gathered Friday, June 10, at Reaney Park to celebrate the grand opening of the Reaney Park Splash Pad. The project was a year in the making and its construction led to closure of the Reaney swim pool last year. The new splash pad is 3,000 square feet and offers 10 spray toys that have been programmed to be activated r...
Port of Whitman Commissioner Dan Boone cuts the ribbon at one of the new cabins at Boyer Park during an open house Friday, June 10, as Commissioners Tom Kammerzell and John Love look on. Commissioner Boone, who chairs the Port commission, told those in attendance the recent upgrades help make Boyer more of a destination for travelers....
