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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. REPORT ARREST STRUGGLE A Garfield man who was charged with resisting arrest Monday night after he was stopped on the Endicott-St. John Road, was taken to Whitman Hospital where he was treated for a head injury sustained when he reportedly butted the back seat cage of a county patrol car. The suspect, Michael E. Haver, 38, was later booked into...
A memorial service for Larry Merle Jackson, 60, Pullman, will be at 11 a.m. Monday, July 28, in the chapel of Kimball Funeral Home in Pullman. He died at his home July 20, 2014. Born in Goldendale Dec. 17, 1953, to Merle and Nadine Grooms Jackson, he grew up around Goldendale and graduated high school there. He moved to Pullman in 1972 to attend Washington State University and later accepted a job with WSU's Central Stores as a truck driver. He was still working at WSU at the time of his death. Larry loved to take day trips around the area with...
8 years ago The Commoner July 26, 1889 Misses May Ford, Maggie Inman and Anna Felch and J.E. Ballaine, E.M. Warner and H.J. Felch, composed a party who left the city Monday morning for a visit to Steptoe’s lofty summit. On the way, the party met the genial “Cashup” on his way to town and deferred the trip changing the program so as to include Garfield in their rounds, where they took dinner, returning home in the evening as well pleased as if they had inhaled the rarified air of the towering mountain. 100 years ago The Colfax Commoner July...
Thursday, July 24 Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Friday, July 25 St. John – 9:30 a.m. – Junior Summer Reading – A special reading program for younger children with activities and crafts. Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Last Session of Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents. Uniontown – 10 a.m. – Lapsit Storytime – Infants age birth to 24 months are invited to nursery rhymes, tickles, songs and bounces. Uniontown – 10:30 a.m. – Storytime – Share the excit...
Nine members of the Colton High School class of 1975 took time for this Fourth of July photo at the Johnson parade. In back from the left are Dallene Matson Hilkin, Rita Ankerson, Jeff Druffel, Robyn Druffel, Shaun Hartley and Jim Davis. In front are Steve Warnecke, Jeff Becker and Gerry Schultheis. The 1965 pickup truck was provided by Frank Ankerson....
SENIOR MENUS Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday - Indoor Picnic: Hot dogs & fixings, baked beans, coleslaw, relish tray, ice cream sundaes. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday - Indoor Picnic: Hot dogs & fixings, baked beans, coleslaw, relish tray, ice cream sundaes. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday - Indoor Picnic: Hot dogs & fixings, baked beans, coleslaw, relish tray, ice cream sundaes. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday - Indoor Picnic: Hot dogs & fixings, baked beans, coleslaw, relish tray, ice cream sundaes. VAN...
Eric E. will play at Empire Eric E., one of the most versatile solo guitar performers in the Northwest, will perform Saturday, July 26, at 7 p.m. at the Empire Theatre in Tekoa. Now living in Moscow, Eric has performed in 49 states and in 18 countries. He has opened for Jay Leno, Styx, The Little River Band, Dan Seals, Air Supply and many others. He often prefers small venues where he can tailor his performance to a particular audience’s taste. His material includes songs of many styles from many eras; he often surprises his listeners with his...
Emily Jones, Heather Siegel and Jade Porubek from St. John/Endioctt High School represented Washington state at the Future Business Leaders of America 2014 National Leadership Conference in Nashville, Tenn., June 27-July 2. They competed as a team in banking and financial systems as part of an annual competitive events program. Washington state entered 215 students in competition with 65 placing in the top 10. They also had a dinner cruise on the Andrew Jackson Riverboat and visited The...
Janiece Anderson has contributed in many ways to the community and one of her longest commitments was to Friends of Hospice. She was recruited by Kelly Olsen, who became a very close friend and mentor, to be a member of a community bereavement group. From that beginning, Kelly inspired Janiece to volunteer. She started helping with fundraisers, then helped the hospice volunteer coordinator in the office. That commitment grew into a Friends of Hospice board position where Janiece served as...
Dusty Justin and Katy Heaton hosted a barbecue at their home Sunday. Katy’s parents, Dave and Kathy Tellessen, her brother and family, Ryan, Chris, Sam and Kes Tellessen, her sister, Megan and friend Charlie, Grandma and Grandpa Pethram and Aunt Alice and Uncle Doug Shafer were guests along with Blake and Carmen Heaton, Jaime, Heathermarie, Valente, Jeronimo and Xico Reynoso. Later, Walter Riley joined the celebration. During the party, Katy brought out two boxes, baby “A” and baby “B.” Katy opened box “A” and pink balloons popped out. Justin,...
PNW Co-op Specialty Foods and Whole Foods Market will sponsor the lentil cooking demonstration stage at the 26th National Lentil Festival Aug. 22-23 in Pullman. The stage will feature top chefs sharing recipes and dishes and offering tips on lentil preparation. Friday, Aug. 22, at 6:30 p.m., they will feature the Ask-The-Experts panel. Visitors will have the opportunity to ask chefs, nutrition and agriculture experts about the environmental, economic and nutritional benefits of Palouse-grown legumes. Cooking demo times set for Saturday, Aug....
Kenny McNaughton, son of the Rev. Ken and Joy McNaughton of Colfax, received this Quilt of Valor from Whitman Samplers Quilt Guild July 16 at Palouse River Quilts in Colfax. A member of the 2008 class of Colfax High School, Lt. McNaughton returned after serving nine months in Afghanistan with the U.S. Army. He began service in the Army after graduating from Whitworth University at Spokane two years ago. Lt. McNaughton is normally stationed at Ft. Drum, N.Y. Tami Drader, center, made the...
Several Whitman County Boy Scouts have achieved or are nearing the rank of Eagle Scout to date this year. Cory Brown of Rosalia earned the distinction in January and received the award at a Court of Honor ceremony July 12. Three Pullman High School students, Eric Lange, Robert Handy and Cody Leach earned their Eagle rank last the spring. Hunter Farnworth of Colfax got his in April and four other area boys have completed their projects and earned the required 21 merit badges. All that remains is a last review for each, which will take place in...
The residence of Leaf and Erin McGreevy Seaburg, who resided two miles north of Twisp, was one of those consumed to the Carlton Complex fire last week. Erin Seaburg is a member of the Colfax High School class of 1994 and recently attended their 20th-year reunion at Colfax. She is the daughter of Ken and Kathy McGreevey of Colfax. Their parents report said the Seaburgs were ordered to evacuate the residence about 4:30 p.m. last Thursday. Seaburg, who was guiding a fishing trip at the time, later returned to the house to water it down, but it was...
Palouse Clerk/Treasurer Joyce Beeson announced that she will retire in January after 21 years with the city. Taking her place will be Mike Bagott, the current Palouse Fire Chief. Bagott will fulfill both duties. Bagott is a 19-year veteran of the fire department with 20 years’ experience with Bagott Motors in Palouse. In a statement, Bagott said that the auto business will “continue to operate for the foreseeable future....
Whitman County commissioners Monday approved the lowest bid for an emergency communications trailer. Four bids were submitted before the deadline Monday morning. They were Midway Trailers from Denton, Mo., for $64,674.51; Walters Group, Inc., Napoleon, Ohio, $72,857.82; Mohawk Ltd., Chadwick, NY, $88,434.80; Farber, Reynoldsburg, Ohio, $92,217.51. After Emergency Management Director Bill Tensfeld researched each bid and made a recommendation to the board, the commissioners awarded the bid to Midway Trailers. Mirage Enterprises from Nampa,...
Whitman County FSA Committee seeks candidates for the local County Committee election. The nomination period runs through Aug. 1, and the election will be in December. Each COC member is elected as a representative for their local administrative area. All agricultural producers are encouraged to seek a nomination to be a part of the FSA Committee. In order to be eligible, nominees must live in the the area currently up for election. Each elected member has a three-year term and the terms are staggered so one position is up for election each...
Reducing mankind‚’s carbon footprint has become the defining issue of our time and rightly so. Virtually every level of government has policies to reduce greenhouse gases by regulating everything from industrial CO2 emissions to cow flatulence. But as Kermit the Frog said, It’s not easy being green.” It turns out that some good ideas don’t work well or not at all. Still, the government continues to mandate them. For example, a three-year study funded by the Department of Energy confirmed that producing ethanol from corn and corn stalks cr...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2009. When it comes to my gastro-intestinal system, my firm policy is that all traffic should be strictly one-way. I’m therefore more than a little nonplussed when my doctor advises me she’d like to see me get a colonoscopy. “What kind of person,” I demand, “would like to see something like that?” For those of you fortunate enough not to know what a colonoscopy is, picture yourself sitting at home having a quiet evening with your family, and the doorbell rings, and it’s the Roto...
What is best I am new to the eastern Washington area, coming over here last fall to take the job as medical director at St. Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute in Spokane. I have held a faculty appointment in the University Of Washington School Of Medicine for the past 20 years. I am a huge fan of UW, and it is truly a world class institution and medical school. However I must say I am very impressed with the programs Washington State University has set up in Spokane. WSU is already a bona fide world class research organization with a myriad of e...
As a defender of the nation’s borders, President Barack Obama is a hell of a pool player. Obama’s recent game in a Denver bar with Colorado Gov. John Hickenlooper was bright and cheery, as one would expect of a president who didn’t have any depressing visits to frightened ranchers, overwhelmed border agents or desperate migrants on his future itinerary. The first rule in a crisis for any executive is put on his windbreaker and boots and get out on the ground. President George W. Bush didn’t do it soon enough after Hurricane Katrina and, po...
That recent Pew Research Center poll is pretty jarring. We are so politically polarized in this country that nearly one in three “consistently conservative” Americans would be upset if one of his or her children wed a Democrat. For the “consistently liberal” respondents, it was nearly one in four for the opposite wedding. Imagine the new remake of “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.” How many would be protesting they weren’t really closed-minded, saying, “Some of my best friends are (right wingers/left wingers), but would you want your daughter to m...
Two hospital shootings took place recently in Spokane. Hospitals are not normally considered places of violence, except in movies and on T.V. Yet, violence, whether with guns or not, is a growing reality at hospitals, especially in emergency rooms. It has even become a concern in Whitman County. Disturbances and violent patients are not new at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center. In fact, the Colfax Police Department has started to position officers there during the early morning hours. The new program gives the hospital, and for that matter...
St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse swimmers rolled up 513 points July 15 to take a dominating win in a three-team meet at Colfax. Dayton placed second with 407 points, and host Colfax tallied 307. The meet was the last at Colfax until the Aug. 2 county meet for the Jerry Cluckey Memorial Cup. 100-Yard Freestyle Girls 12 & Under 1. Kennedy Schmidt, Colfax, 1:20.37; 2. Helina Hahn, Colfax, 1:28.60; 3. Chloe Bammes, SEL, 1:31.32; 4. Catherine Treis, SEL, 1:33.62 13-14: 1. Neylon Bryan, Dayton, 1:18.25; 2. Alexis Maki, Colfax, 1:22.90; 3. Tatuma Laughery,...
Colfax Boy Scouts in Troop 595 departed last Friday for a three-day trip on the Snake River to Hells Canyon where they landed three sturgeon. Their trip was organized by Dr. Mike Frostad and his better fishing ministries group. His dad, Dr. Alvin Frostad of Pullman and Chris Boyan assisted. Two boats were used on the trip which departed for the Frostad River place upstream from Asotin and downstream from Beamer’s Landing. The group landed three sturgeon on Saturday while they were fishing along the Snake near the confluence of the Snake and S...
