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TRIVIA TEST 1. GEOGRAPHY: What place is known as Kalaalit Nunaat in the local language? 2. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What university’s nickname is the Rainbow Warriors? 3. ASTRONOMY: How many moons does Venus have? 4. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a hare’s top ground speed? 5. POP CULTURE: What was the name of the Pillsbury Dough Girl? 6. LITERATURE: What was Tarzan’s real name? 7. MYTHOLOGY: Who was Odysseus’ wife? 8. MUSIC: Until his death, Kurt Cobain was the lead singer of which cutting-edge band? 9. ECONOMICS: Who wrote the influential book “Wealth...
• It was prolific British author G.K. Chesterton who made the following sage observation: “An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.” • According to the Guinness Book of Records, the world’s longest place name belongs to a hill in New Zealand, which is known as Taumatawhakatangihangak oauauotamateaturipukaka pikimaungahoronukupokaiwhe nua kitanatahu. When translated from Maori, the language of the native people, the name reads “place where Tamatea, the man with the big kne...
Amended charges against Jeremiah J. Lafave, 27, Pomeroy were filed Tuesday in superior court in connection with the alleged home invasion robbery May 31 on Northwood Drive in Pullman. Lafave has been charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary and harassment with a firearm involved. The victim told Pullman police officers two men forced their way into his apartment and threatened him with a gun. The intruders later placed the victim in the bathroom of the apartment and used cable to secure the door. They then placed items in a bag and departed....
To a Teenage Daughter: Cease and Desist W. Bruce Cameron Dear Teenage Daughter: You are to Cease and Desist acting like a teenage daughter. It is summer, and you have begun wearing an inadequate amount of clothing. Most offensive is your bikini, a bathing suit named after the Bikini Islands, where the United States tested 23 nuclear weapons. I think we can both agree that nuclear explosions are not a good thing to have in the house or, worse, out in public where boys can see them. One of the nuclear tests at the Bikini Islands inspired the... Full story
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. HYDRANT FOUNTAIN PROPOSED Colfax Volunteer Firemen are advancing plans for a fountain and pond to be installed in the Firemen’s Memorial Park at the south end of Main Street. The fountain plan calls for a fire hydrant to serve as the source of the water flow. The water would descend down the grade of the park and into a shallow pool near the l...
Poland: A bastion of free enterprise In 1975, as America was preparing to celebrate its bicentennial, Poland was a suppressed Soviet satellite state. The Polish people were impoverished, had no right to free speech and if you wanted a job, you had to play ball with Communist Party bosses. Poland was a bleak land that had never recovered from World War II. That same year, more than 5,000 miles away, the Business Week program began at Central Washington University as a way for high school students to experience our nation’s free enterprise s...
AARP policy, Gregoire departure,War Powers Act ITEM - News that AARP, the most influential lobby for senior citizens, has decided that America’s fiscal straits are so serious that it is willing to consider supporting cuts in Social Security, was deemed a political earthquake nationwide. AARP has for years regarded any reformers of Social Security as evildoers who want to bankrupt Granny. The change in heart, it’s said, is because AARP finally accepts that Social Security cuts are inevitable and wants to be at the bargaining table when they are...
#!*! Pox on the coach who turned on the water at the soft ball field and made water spots on all the cars. #!*! A mission trip should be a spirit guided trip not a Christian vacation. #!*! Colfax Youth League for forming a 10 & under major league team and then failing to schedule any games for them. Political statements pertaining to local issues and campaigns need to be signed. Also self-promoting statements and personal exaltations over family members are not appropriate. Send your Pet Peeves and Okeydokes to the Gazette P.O. Box 770 Colfax,... Full story
The debate over the national debt ceiling started in earnest with the new Republican Tea Partyers declaring that in no way would they support raising the country’s debt limit. For these constitutionalists, that is a strange and ironic stance. The Fourteenth Amendment declares the legitimacy of public debt when authorized by law. Interpretations indicate this means that to default on legal obligations would, in itself, be unconstitutional. Thus, the threat not to honor the nation’s obligations seems a false and specious one, especially by tho... Full story
The History Channel • On July 16, 1863, the draft riots enter their fourth day in New York City in response to the Enrollment Act. Although avoiding military service became much more difficult, wealthier citizens could still pay a commutation fee of $300 to remain at home. • On July 11, 1899, E.B. White, the author of the popular children’s novels “Charlotte’s Web,” “Stuart Little” and “The Trumpet of the Swan,” is born in Mount Vernon, N.Y. White also updated and expanded “The Elements of Style,” an English usage guide that remains a standard... Full story
After finishing a 1-4 run in the Palouse Summer Series with a batfest Saturday at Colfax, the Pullman Patriots returned to league play Tuesday night at WSU’s Bailey-Brayton Field and booked a split with the Spokane Northstars. The split left the Pats at 5-7 in league play with another two games slated against the Stars Wednesday night in Spokane. The Patriots took the second game 8-6 after a lightning/rain delay shut down the action for over 30 minutes after the third inning. Nick Scourey pitched the first three innings, and Curt Peterson c... Full story
Zornes golf tourney draws 55 entrants Fifty-five golfers hit the Colfax links Saturday for the fourth annual Peter Zornes Memorial Golf Tournament. Organized by the Zornes family and the WSU veterinary school, the tournament is the main funding source for a neuroscience scholarship in honor of Peter Zornes, a 2003 WSU graduate and 1999 grad of Oakesdale High who was killed in a double homicide/suicide in Pullman in December 2005. Kathy Zornes, Peters’ mother, said she this year’s turnout was “outstanding.” “It’s one of the ways that we can... Full story
Whitman Cougars booked another close game Tuesday night when they traveled to East Valley for a Junior Legion league round. The EV hosts prevailed 5-3 after a steady performance on the mound for the Cougars by Rosalia’s Will Dedic. “It was a good, close ball game, and we squandered a couple of opportunities,” Cougar Coach Matt Johnson noted. East Valley scored four runs in the bottom of the second inning, and the Cougars were unable to make it up. They scored their first run when Patrick Jacobs singled, Ryan Maley moved him over with a bunt,...
Saturday’s Earl Barden All-Star Classic football game at Yakima, featuring senior grads in the state 2B through 2A divisions, had a Colfax flavor in the coaching department with Mike Morgan of Colfax heading the East Side team and Sid Otton heading the West side team. Otton is the veteran coach at Tumwater who won the 2A title game last December at the Tacoma Dome with a 34-14 crush of ArchBishop Murphy. Before his long career at Tumwater, Otton made a coaching stop at Colfax where he led the Bulldogs to their to an AP state title in 1971, t...
Clicking off just over ten 45-minute rounds of nine holes last Friday, Allen Kirkpatrick and Jim Heilsberg of Colfax logged 100 holes of golf in a Rotary Club fundraiser on the Colfax Golf Course. “You’ll never believe it, but Al only told two jokes this whole time,” Heilsberg said while traveling down the 99th fairway. Each golfer used his own cart to save time. The duffing duo pledged to swing through all 100 holes to collect pledge funds from various donors. Rotarian funds will be used to help eradicate polio from the planet. All tolle... Full story
THURSDAY Two men were arrested and charged with plotting to attack a military center for enlistees in Seattle with grenades and machine guns. Former mob boss James “Whitey” Bulger, captured near his coastal California hideout after 16 years on the run, was ordered held without bond for transfer back to Boston to face charges of murder, extortion and conspiracy. Umpires suspended the 105th “Midnight Sun Baseball Game” in Faribanks, Alaska, with the score tied 1-1 in the 10th inning at about 1:30 a.m. local time, after the visiting Waves of Ocea... Full story
Palouse Community Center gets grant for green energy The Palouse Community Center has received a $20,000 grant from the Inland Northwest Community Foundation to support its Renewable Energy Demonstration Project. Funds will be used to purchase an energy-efficient heating and cooling system and forced air electric dual heat pumps for the Palouse Community Center building. Energy for operation will be provided by solar panels. “This was a huge boost for the Community Center,” said Scott Beeson, chairman of the Community Center Board. “We are g... Full story
Once the center of Colfax high society, the 1914 Florence Ferguson house on N. Mill Street was recently listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Ann Marra and Tim Ely are the third owners of the house and have spent much of the past decade enhancing and bringing back some of the original charms built into the unique home. “In our minds, we are simply stewards with the privilege of enjoying this beautiful house for a time,” said Marra. The home, a blend of turn-of-the-20th Century architectural designs, is beautifully crafted wit...
Palouse’s Grange Hall building will officially close Aug. 1. The Palouse Arts Council made the decision to close the hall after they decided the price to buy the building was too high. One more wedding has been booked at the building before it closes. The council has maintained the building for the past eight years, and sought to buy it in order to apply for grant funds to upgrade the building. Washington State Grange legally owns the building. The arts council made several offers to buy it, but said each of their offers was turned down. “They... Full story
Magician Jeff Evans visited the Colfax library June 23 to wow the summer crowd of children with his magic. Evans performed an educational magic show that taught children about different countries around the world. His repertoire included making an egg disappear, putting a full glass of milk into a moving box without spilling it and making a giant fan appear out of nowhere. Evans tours the Pacific Northwest with his show. His performance was part of the Whitman County Library’s summer reading series, “One World, Many Stories....
Steptoe residents want to keep their former Grange hall. They just aren’t sure yet how to pay for it. Nineteen residents of Steptoe met with officials of the Washington State Grange last Wednesday, June 22, to discuss the future of the building, which is officially owned by the state Grange organization. Steptoe residents have used the hall for funerals, wedding receptions and many other community functions. Wylie Gustafson and his Wild West Show performed a cancer benefit concert in the grange building earlier this month. “It’s a great build...
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved a collective bargaining contract for 2011 with the county’s 15 jail workers who are represented by the Teamsters Union. The contract is retroactive to the start of the year. Under the contract, the county’s contribution to the medical insurance of jailers was increased by $20 to $735 per month. No pay increases were included. Jailers are insured through the Teamsters composite insurance plan, the only union in the county to be insured under the Teamsters plan. The county’s correction’s officer...
Several offices will be closed next Monday for Independence Day. The Whitman County courthouse, city halls around the county and banks will be closed. There will be no postal service Monday. Garbage pickup by Empire Disposal, Garfield Disposal and Pullman Disposal will be pushed back one day for the week....
A large bull snake was escorted out of town after being captured last Wednesday, June 22 on the basketball court at Eells Park. Fire Chief Ralph Walter donned gloves to grab the snake and dump it into a bag held by Chief Bill Hickman. The snake was driven to an undisclosed location out-of-town and released.... Full story
