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Endicott Trinity Lutheran Church will offer Vacation Bible School from July 6 - 10. Children ages 3 - 5 will attend 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. daily, Grades K - fifth will be held 9 a.m. - 2 p.m. daily. Lunch will be served for everyone daily with a family barbecue July 9 at 5:30. Sharon Huff visited her daughter, Sheryl and Terry Kyllo, and their daughters Shelby and Lauren in Anacortes. Shelby was leaving on a trip to Prague, Czech Republic, to study graphic design for two months. Lauren was leaving for Provo, Utah, to do her practical experience...
Dusty Vacation Bible School was June 9-11 at the LaCrosse Community Club building. Eighteen children attended. Pastor John Cross led the music and taught the Bible lesson. Gretchen Pedersen and Shenette Cross led games, Katie Pitts led activities, Wendy Fleming made snacks, and Di Brink conducted crafts and also was the coordinator. Lauren Stubbs was a great helper all week. Blake and Austen Jones were able to help one day. Norma Gibson, Margaret Mackleit and Gaye Nelson helped all week. Margaret and Leila Zaring supplied hot dogs, buns and...
Norma Gibson, Drew Parks and Mike Stine returned home from the Special Olympics Summer Games at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Tacoma. Norma brought home a gold medal in the 50m walk and seventh place ribbon in the shot put. Drew brought home sixth place ribbons in the 400 and 200-meter run, and the long jump. Mike brought home a silver medal in the 50 meter walk and an eighth place ribbon in the shot put. They are members of the Whitman County Cougars team....
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. BILDERBACK SITE IN SUIT A suit for unlawful detainment has been filed against Chastity Bilderback at 96 SW Birch Street in Malden. The suit was filed Friday in superior court on behalf of Marie Felton, owner of the residence who now resides in Spokane Valley. The residence is the location where Bobby Bilderback was arrested in March of 2013 afte...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Jesse William Burke, 38, Pullman, and Karol Lynn Krey, 31, Pullman, May 22. Timothy Charles Spry, 26, Pullman, and Bowei He, 30, Moscow, Idaho, May 22. Jonathan Thomas Burnett, 25, Moscow, Idaho, and Valari Grace Miller, 32, Moscow, Idaho, May 29. Reuben Martens Glass Bendigo, 24, Uniontown, and Saber Rashell Jewell, 25, Uniontown, May 29. Jason Theodore Opgenorth, 25, Pullman, and Shelley Leah Gammel, 39, Pullman, May 29. Jeremiah Williams Robert, 39, Colfax, and Sarina Maree Fairbanks, 35, Colfax, June 1. Francis Danso... Full story
Connecticut is in a deep financial pickle and is in danger of seeing a mass exodus of businesses looking for states where taxes are lower and private sector employers are welcome. Connecticut, a state of 3.6 million people, just passed a two-year $40 billion state budget, which is roughly the amount Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D) and lawmakers in Olympia are grappling over. But an accumulation of tax increases has Connecticut taxpayers steaming and looking to leave. This is what happened. Right after Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) assumed office in... Full story
8 years ago The Commoner June 13, 1890 Tekoa comes to the front with one of the most heroic acts only equaled by Grace Darling. The heroine is a nine-year-old daughter of Cyrus Lake Esq., of Farmington. Mr. Lake was engaged at Tekoa as a contractor in building the railroad hotel. His wife and little daughters accompanied him. As buildings were not to be had Mr. Lake and family raised a tent on the bank of the creek near the site of the hotel. The Hangman creek at this point is, at this season of the year, a deep swift-running stream. Across... Full story
Every time Hillary Clinton makes a left-wing policy pronouncement, it is, in effect, another eulogy marking the death of the coalition and style of politics that twice made her husband president. Bill Clinton got elected by peeling off working-class whites and suburbanites from the Republican Party, while holding traditional Democratic voters. He made significant geographic inroads, winning a handful of Southern states both in 1992 and in his 1996 re-election, when he narrowly won the popular vote in the region as a whole. This is all very...
I certainly am not the first to call Joni Ernst’s “Roast and Ride” a “Hog and Hog” event, since we’re talking barbecued pork and Harley-Davidson motorcycles. Ernst is a newbie member of the U.S. Senate whose successful campaign was built on a TV ad where she spoke about her youthful farm experience castrating pigs. Therefore, she went on, she’d know how to cut fat in Washington. That, apparently, is what gets you elected in Iowa. And though this kind of campaign might be cause to worry about the state’s outsized influence on who becomes preside... Full story
The state has declared a drought emergency. Snowpack has been at record lows in many areas. In fact, more than 70 percent of the snow monitoring stations have reported record low snowpack. The official state prognosis for the year is not good. Maia Bellon, director of the Department of Ecology, says that as bad as it is now “conditions are likely to get worse.” The drought can jeopardize municipal water supplies, orchards and vineyards could be seriously impacted, crop losses are possible and fish populations face hardship. It is a sta... Full story
Colfax city council members Monday night listened to pro and con comments on the proposal to convert the now-closed Colfax-Pullman railroad line into a multi-purpose trail Pullman Civic Trust President Lisa Carloye gave a power point presentation on the trail concept at the start of the council session. She said the first priority for the trust is to convince residents and government entities to pursue rail banking of the rail right-of-way vs. abandonment of the line. Owners of property adjoining the trail have requested the right-of-way be...
Pullman Posse Junior Legion team will play double bills at McDonald Park in Colfax next week with Shadle Park here June 20 and East Valley June 21. Both are slated to start at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Posse moved their record to 5-2 with a split at Freeman. They took the opener 11-1 with Evan Parks throwing a one-hitter at the summer Scotties. Posse batters hammered 13 hits. They had five hits and scored eight runs in the first inning. Parks, Jake Mendiola, and Joey Vanucci doubled in the first game, and Wyatt Griner tripled. Freeman nipped Posse 9-8...
Colfax High School volleyball coach Sue Doering received the top female coach of the year honor at the Spokane Youth Sports award presentations last Tuesday night at the Martin Wolston Theater in Spokane. Doering was among three finalists nominated for the award. In her 27 years of coaching at Colfax, Doering’s teams have brought home 12 state championships while competing in the A or 2B divisions of the WIAA. That included a second straight state title last year for the volleyball team which wrapped up a 32-2 record. The 2013 Colfax team h...
Spectators are sprayed as a sprint boat rounds a corner at Webbs’ Slough in St. John last year. Sprint boat teams are in a scramble mode this week in preparation for the season opener at Webb’s Slough in St. John Saturday. The Webbs expect about 25 teams will be ready to hit the water when the first runs start at 10 a.m. “We get word that they’re all working to get the boats ready to go, and we expect to have some new teams here,” Amanda Webb reported. Among the new boats expected will be a...
Fred Wagner, left, and Chris Smith, Tekoa’s bicycle scout duo on the John Wayne Trail, started their cross-state ride Sunday at North Bend and advanced as far as Othello by Tuesday. They plan to finish at Tekoa Friday night. Tekoa’s exploratory bike riding duo, Fred Wagner and Tristan Smith, advanced as far at the Othello area Tuesday after three days on the state’s John Wayne Trail. The two mountain bike riders are pacing their cross-state ride to the arrive under the Tekoa trestle Frida... Full story
Proposed legislation introduced in Washington, D.C., in response to the recent nine-month West Coast ports slowdown, has received support from Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers. “Produce from Eastern Washington feeds people around the world, and our farmers must be able to move their product to market,” McMorris-Rodgers said. “I support empowering local authorities to help ensure Eastern Washington crops are not jeopardized by labor shutdowns or slowdowns." U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner, R-Colo. June 5 int...
The 20th annual Relay for Life event in Colfax is coming up on July 11–for what may be the last time. The annual team relay walk around the track that will take place from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. and coordinate with this year's Concrete River Festival which will also have events at the park. Coordinators Gwen Nolan and Deanna Leinweber said nine teams have signed up so far, and there may be a 10th team as well. "If the tenth team comes along, that's just bonus," said Leinweber. Teams will walk around the track at Colfax High School to raise money f...
A demonstration of seeding into winter wheat stubble at the Tracy Erikson farm on Highway 23 west of St. John has been scheduled June 23 beginning at 8:30 a.m. The demonstration will be hosted by the Palouse Rock Lake Conservation District. The winter wheat, averaging between 70 and 80 bushels per acre, was harvested using a stripper header which leaves most of the wheat stalk in the field. The 40 acre field was harvested with a Shelboure Reynolds stripper header, according to Dan Harwood, district coordinator. Use of high residue h...
Jennings Elementary School Principal Tom Arlt will begin as High School Principal for Lind-Ritzville High School on July 1. The Ritzville native will next week finish seven years as principal at Jennings. “It definitely is not about leaving Colfax or Jennings, or wanting to,” said Arlt. “It’s an opportunity to go home, go back to where I was born and raised.” Arlt family members homesteaded near Ritzville in 1887. His parents still live there and his brother Dustan is a P.E. teacher and head... Full story
A new curriculum pilot and two adoptions were approved last Monday, June 8, by the Colfax School board. Brenda Kneeshaw, Instructional Coach for the Colfax School District, presented information to board members at their regular meeting. Telling them that the cost is an estimated $100,000 to adopt a new reading and math program – including textbooks and teaching manuals – Kneeshaw pointed out that the district has received the equivalent of $150,000 in support in the last four years at no cos... Full story
The Whitman County Commissioners approved a $10,797 project to add 16 new signs to the Palouse Scenic Byway at their meeting Monday. Whitman County Parks received four bids for the project, and they chose to go with the low bid from iZone Imaging of Texas. Other bids for the job were from Interpretive Graphics of Salt Lake City with a bid of $11,363, Genesis Graphics, Inc. of Escanaba, Mich., with a bid of $13,525 and Communication One Exhibits of Salem, Ore., with the high bid of $14,319. Each community on the Byway will receive a sign and sig... Full story
An egg in hand will be twice as precious again in Tekoa Saturday as the 87th annual Slippery Gulch Days commences. The famed Crosby Street-stretching egg toss, parade, dance and fireworks show will be joined by new events and a list of perennial happenings at this year’s town celebration. A “Whistle Stop Revue” at Empire Theater will entertain with a musical journey across the United States in a 3 p.m. performance. The show will bring back a former old Slippery Gulch tradition. A Friday perfo... Full story
LaCrosse is gearing up for the Farmer’s Festival this weekend. The annual event, themed this year as “Celebrate the Good Times,” is expected to draw large crowds and provide plenty of fun for all. The festivities will kick off Friday with the Richard Roberts Scholarship Barbecue at Main Street Mini Park at 5 p.m., with a 21 and older event at Pastime Tavern to follow at 9 p.m. Saturday will be a packed day. LaCrosse Community Outreach will serve a biscuits and gravy breakfast at the Café beginning at 7:30 a.m. and going until 10 a.m. Prices wil... Full story
Summer sun has brought about construction season again, as evident by signs in Colfax for the Highway 195 work on Main Street. The work, which includes repaving, replacing sidewalks and a rebuild of the railroad crossing which is located between the Harrison and Tyler intersection, is part of the Highway 195 resurfacing contract which extends from Cooper Street in Colfax and continues north to the Dry Creek Road intersection.... Full story
After Sam Thompson, 20, was killed in a car accident on Highway 195 between Colfax and Pullman last September, his parents Jim and Lisa Thompson of Colfax knew they needed to do something. Through their grief, they began to educate themselves about the dangers of texting and driving and have been working in the community and surrounding communities to bring awareness to this dangerous habit, which was believed to be the cause of the accident. “Until it happened to Sam, that’s when I realized ‘How did I not know this?’” Lisa said. “And now...
