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MAYBE something’s been done that I haven’t heard about yet, but somebody missed or is missing a chance to make a bundle in San Diego. That’s where the collection of fireworks for the big Independence Day show all went off at one time in one gigantic explosion. It was all over TV the next day. I have yet to read what went wrong, just the disappointment of the crowd, which expected to see a half hour at least of timed fireworks and music to enjoy them with. My thought was boy what an opportunity for a tee shirt that has a picture on it of the e... 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. STREET TALK AT CITY MEET Colfax City Council members Monday night approved the six-year street plan without debate, but discussed other street topics which are not part of the plan. Council members asked about the possibility of the Department of Transportation repairing the Highway 26 bridge which spans the N. Palouse River at the north end of...
A segment of one of the towers destined for the Palouse Wind farm in north Whitman County sits beside the Jones Truck and Implement lot of the Walla Walla Highway in north Colfax Tuesday morning. Segments have regularly passed along local highways in the evening and early morning hours for the past two weeks as the firm erects towers for its 58-turbine site on Naff Ridge. This segment, with a wind guard bearing the brand name of its manufacturer, Vestas, was awaiting the final leg from Colfax to the Baird Road construction s...
1. MOVIES: What was Indiana Jones’ real first name in Steven Spielberg’s movie series? 2. LANGUAGE: What is a raincoat called in English slang? 3. GEOGRAPHY: What is the largest European country where people still drive on the left? 4. MUSIC: What rock band included musicians Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Bernie Leadon and Randy Meisner? 5. ANIMAL KINGDOM: What is a group of flamingos called? 6. COMICS: What is the name of Jeremy’s brother in the comic strip “Zits”? 7. U.S. PRESIDENTS: What former first lady appeared in a margarine commercia...
Pullman’s novice swim team posted a win Thursday when they hosted four other county teams at the Reaney Park Pool. The Pullman team had 353 points on the board at the meet which was called after 57 races because of lightning storms. The early shutdown eliminated most of the older age competiton in the backstroke and all of the freesyle relay events which usually cap a meet. Other team scores at the time of the shutdown were Colfax 289.5, St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse 284, Garfield/Palouse 157, and Tekoa/Oakesdale/ Rosalia 118. FREESTYLE 100 G...
• It was German-American painter and lithographer Herm Albright who made the following sage observation: “A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.” • It’s well-known that there were shortages of many items during World War II — and caffeine was one. It was such a problem, in fact, that the chemists at Coca-Cola tried to find a substitute, even experimenting with a derivative of bat guano. The idea was nixed by an executive who was afraid of the public backlash if the trut...
Colfax baseball fans will get a chance to see triple A Legion teams in action this weekend when McDonald Park hosts one of four semi-final rounds in the state playoffs. The four teams which land at Colfax will be part of a 16-team playoff entry which will be played out at three other locations around the state. Colfax Coach Mike Parrish said the lone known qualifier for the Colfax series, as of Tuesday, was the 49ers team out of the Spokane Senior Legion League. The 49ers, who are from the north end of the Spokane league territory with players... Full story
A top tier Colfax volleyball team, made up of CHS veterans who will start practices for the fall season next month, went undefeated last Saturday in the volleyball tournament at WSU. Coach Sue Doering said Colfax entered three teams in the event. Each team played in its own tier. The top tier team rolled out a 6-0 run in the first round which called for one game up to 21 against each of the other teams in the tier. Colfax then defeated the Tumwater two for seeding among the top tier finishes. Colfax then dropped Tumwater in two games, 21-14 and...
Pullman Patriots booked a 2-1 mark at the Spokane Legion playoffs over the weekend at AK Jackson field to qualify for the state’s 16-team semi-final round this weekend. The Patriots will be headed for Issaquah, one of four sites for the state semi event. The Patriots are booked to play Pac Tech, the Longview area team which has bumped them from the regionals for the last two years. Pac Tech won the state title two years ago. The regional round will be at Issaquah High. Two teams from each regional site will advance to the final eight playoff f... Full story
THURSDAY Penn State leaders, including the late football coach Joe Paterno, covered up Jerry Sandusky’s sexual abuse of children for years, showing a callous disregard for the victims to protect a multimillion-dollar football program, according to an investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh. A bush pilot noticed one of the biggest landslides on record in the Alaskan wilderness near Lituya Mountain. The slide spread rock and debris about 5.5 miles over a glacier in a remote section of Glacier Bay National Park. Fifty-four years ago, t...
Ryoma McKenna, now 22, was sentenced to 60 days in jail on a charge for possession of more than 40 grams of marijuana in April of 2009. McKenna was sentenced after he was ordered removed from the county’s drug court program at a hearing last week. Among other conditions, defendants who enroll in the drug court are subject to sentencing on the original charge if they are ordered out of the drug program following a hearing. Deputy Prosecutor Dan Le Beau petitioned the court to order McKenna removed from the drug court program. The court found M...
Two of four young raccoons wait for relocation after being caught living in a garden shed with their mother on Valleyview Road in Colfax. Don and Elaine McClintock estimate the brood lived in the shed for three months before they caught the mother in a live trap June 19 and set it loose in the Glenwood area. The babies were caught the next week and Don took them to the WSU Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Center....
Five candidates for County Commissioner spoke to a crowd of about 40 at a League of Women Voters forum Tuesday night in the Colfax library. The two-hour event marked the second of three forums booked for the candidates. Last Wednesday at the Whelan-Ewartsville Grange Hall north of Pullman four of the candidates put in another two hours responding to questions written on cards from audience members. A third forum was slated for last night, Wednesday, at Pullman city hall. Tuesday’s session at C...
A new option in internet connection is available to Farmington and Malden residents as the result of a $1.7 million project completed at the end of June. Friday, July 6, Frontier Communications of Moscow began to offer high-speed internet to people within a four-mile radius of Farmington. “It’s pretty significant to our customers there,” said Martin Erkela, Frontier’s general manager. Before the new option, Farmington residents had a few choices to connect to the internet, although none were as...
The farm operation of Leonard and Stacy Aune rolled its combines into the wheat field Tuesday afternoon and took a first cutting at Riparia to kick off Whitman County’s harvest. Wheat proved too green to continue, though, and plans were to get the full cutting underway Wednesday, according to Stacy Aune. “Get it cut and get it in the bin,” she said. Stacy said a good price and a good-looking crop have mode those regular evening lightning strikes of late even more scary. “That lightning,” she said. “I look at it and just hope it finds somet...
The National Endowment for the Arts has announced the award of a $25,000 Our Town creative place-making grant to Uniontown Community Development Association (UCDA) for its work in enhancing the identity of Uniontown. It was the first time the UCDA applied for the grant, which was submitted in February. Uniontown was among 80 recipients of the award in 44 states. “We did it partly just for fun,” said UCDA President Dale Miller. “We didn’t think our little town would have any chance in the wor...
Campaign donors have chosen their sides over the Hawkins stateline development controversy in the coming primary election for Whitman County commissioners from District 1. The county’s deal to fund $15 million worth of infrastructure at the company’s long-proposed stateline shopping center and the lawsuit that followed by the citizen Organization to Void Illegal Conduct, or OVIC, is the top issue of this year’s primary election, as witnessed by this week’s debates. Now both sides, Hawkins and OVIC, are putting their money behind their chosen ca...
Skywatchers have been treated to a dazzling though unusual display of evening fireworks every night for more than the past week. “How many times here in the northwest have we seen this many consecutive days of lightning?” asked Dan Harwood, a resident of north Whitman County and coordinator of the Palouse-Rock Lake Conservation District. Along with the lightning have come freak bursts of severe weather. Tuesday night saw a torrential downpour in the northern part of the county. Harwood said he had just crested Malden Hill on his way to Spokane...
The primary ballot includes 18 offices that voters across the county will decide who advances to the November general. Lead local matchups will be the county commission races. District 1 incumbent Greg Partch of Garfield will face challengers Art Swannack of Lamont and Bill Tensfeld of Rosalia. District 2 incumbent Pat O’Neill of Johnson is up against Dean Kinzer of Ewartsville. The District 1 race will narrow the field of three Republicans to two for the general. District 2 candidates O’Neill, a Democrat, and Kinzer, Republican, will be on...
A superior court jury Monday and Tuesday listened to testimony on harvest practices and grain storage shortages as Whitman County Prosector Denis Tracy called witnesses to present the state’s grain rustling case against James Hughes, Endicott trucking contractor and farmer. Hughes has been charged with 19 counts of theft invovling truckloads of grain which the state contends he took from grain elevators in the Whitgro system, the four-year-old cooperative which was formed by the merger of Wheatgrowers of Endicott and St. John Grain Growers. In...
Cancer victims, caregivers meet at Relay for Life Opening ceremonies for the Relay for Life Friday at the Colfax High School track included the traditional survivors lap. Cancer survivors started around the track in one direction and caregivers, most of them family members, started in the opposite direction. The two groups met on the backstretch of the track and finished the lap together.... Full story
Teen helper Jade Porubek assists Christopher, Catherine and Marianne Treis at the Summer Reading session for the St. John library. One hundred kids signed up for the fun of summer reading in St. John and more than 50 have already finished their commitment to read 10 hours or 10 books. Magician Dick Frost will entertain at the final program July 25. In order to get the goodie bags at the last program, participants must have their reading recorded by Friday, July 20. Book logs can be exchanged for prizes until Aug. 17, according to St. John...