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Thursday, August 8 Colfax – 6 to 7 p.m. & 7 to 8 p.m. – Free Martial Arts & Self Defense Classes in the Center – First session from 6-7 p.m. for ages 4-12. Second session from 7-8 p.m. is for teens and adults. Friday, August 9 All fourteen branches of Whitman County Library closed for Annual Maintenance Week August 5-11. Many services will still be available through the library’s website. Monday, August 12 Endicott – 11 a.m. – Learn more about recycling and how to better your community with Judi Grey. St. John – 11:30 a.m. – Summer Reading...
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENU Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — BBQ beef on a bun, potato salad, relish tray, melon, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — BBQ beef on a bun, potato salad, relish tray, melon, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — BBQ beef on a bun, potato salad, relish tray, melon, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday — Fish fillet with dill sauce, baked potatoes, steamed veggies, whole grain rolls, fresh f... Full story
Did you know that we offer cataract surgery at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center? We are fortunate to have Dr. Jonathan Haymore serving patients in our community. He also performs cataract surgery at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center. Dr. Haymore worked with Dr. Michael Cunningham until he retired last year. What is a cataract? When the eye’s naturally clear lens becomes clouded, it’s called a cataract. Most cataracts are the result of the natural process of aging. Others may be present at birth or develop as a result of physical, dru...
8 years ago Aug. 10, 1888 H.S. Hollingsworth, Dr. Harvey and Arthur Howe who left here some two weeks ago for the Coeur d’Alene country, in anticipation of bushels of sport and loads of game, returned Friday considerably discouraged. They report game hard to find, and after several days of hard tramping, only secured one elk. They consequently cut their stay in the mountains short. Some fine specimens of marble in white, grey and rose tints were, however, brought back. The Whitman County Teachers institute closed its work Tuesday evening a... Full story
Ben Bryson and Matt Bramlett of Colfax put the finishing touches on the refurbished horseshoe throwing pits at the Perkins House in Colfax. Materials for the work on the regulation size pits were furnished by Steve Swoope of Colfax.... Full story
Members of the Colfax High School class of 1983 returned for their 30-year reunion July 27 during the Colfax Concrete River festival. In front, from the left, are Kim (Stueckle) Cowman, Remond; Theresa (Cochran) Willy, Bend Ore.; Kris (Westberg) Hanson, Richland; Julie (Morasch) Ellithorpe, Happy Valley Ore; Kathleen (Grimes) Kozak, Dalton Gardens Idaho; Valarie (Bird) Mitchell, Spokane ; Tina (Nelson) Scholz, Colfax; Kathi Cooper, Seattle, and Jean Taylor, Spokane. Seated in the middle row,...
Chamber will fete grandmothers The Chamber of Commerce Thrifty Grandmother’s luncheon will be Aug. 22, at the Hill Ray Plaza. Cost is $18.00. Please consider sponsoring a Grandmother. Company names of sponsors will appear on the honorees name tags. Sponsors are asked to contact the chamber by Aug. 19. CLUBS & YOUTH GROUPS Library book club Whitman County Library Community Bookclub selection for August is The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls. Anyone interested may read and discuss the book with others Aug. 20 at 6 p.m. at the Colfax Golf Club. W...
Harvest photos from a century or more ago often include a picture of the cook shack with several hard-working women inside. This portable kitchen was pulled by a team of horses from field to field to provide lunch and snacks during long harvest days. Often a younger son was assigned the job of ferrying water and supplies to the women as they turned out huge lunches plus snacks at quartering time. The horses or mules pulling the equipment needed a break at mid-morning, lunchtime, and...
Dusty Art and Colene Sager just completed a cross country trip in their airplane, a Mooney M20C. In 36 hours of flying time, they saw Mt. Rushmore, an Indianapolis Nascar Race and Niagra Falls. In between time, they spent a week in western Pennsylvania at a time share condo and three days at the International Flying Farmer Convention in Indianapolis. Their son Blake Sager and family took care of their yard and garden while they were gone. Jennifer Claassen’s niece and nephew, Riley and Katie Stinson of Kansas City, flew in to visit their aunt a... Full story
Endicott Endicott Piece Makers worked on quilts July 31 at the home of Kathy Schlomer. Mrs. Schlomer was hosting Burlene Blankenship of Pullman, Marge Nelson of Moscow and guests from Iowa. Quilts made by Dorothy Schlomer were displayed A salad luncheon was served. Attending from this area were Gail Bilow, Carol Mitcham, Norma Schultz, Anne Lowe, Sharon Storment, Ila Stuart, Alice Mackleit, Margaret Mackleit and Bertie Honn. The county is resurfacing the road from Endicott to Winona with eight asphalt semis running every day from...
Robin Dailey, daughter of Kirby and Liza Dailey of Colfax, and Jeffrey Perry, son of Robert and Jan Perry of Sandy, Utah, were married Dec. 29, 2012, at Mount Timpanogos Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in American Fork, Utah. The bride wore a full length lace dress with a Queen Anne collar and elbow-length sleeves trimmed with eyelash lace. She carried a bouquet with lilies and peacock feathers. Her colors were teal, gray and yellow. Bridal attendants were sisters...
Caralyn Cutlip of Ellensburg High School was named Washington’s representative to the 2014 Distinguished Young Women national program in a ceremony Saturday at Beasley Coliseum in Pullman. Colfax’s Katie Largent (top right) earned the $300 Spirit Award after being chosen by her fellow participants. She is the daughter of Gary and Lisa Largent. A total of 20 high school seniors-to-be competed in the categories of fitness, talent, self-expression and interview. The first runner-up was Naomi Mil...
For two days last week, the three Whitman County commissioners, along with several county department heads, attended a long-range strategic planning meeting in Clarkston to the tune of $1,000 for an overnight stay and meals. “The concentrated intensity a retreat setting provides afforded the commissioners and other attendees a unique opportunity to begin to think strategically about the various challenges Whitman County is faced with,” said commission Chairman Michael Largent. “It was a brain-frying marathon,” Commissioner Dean Kinzer said. H...
A new book documenting two generations of the Gregory family has been written and published by Chris Gregory, a retired teacher who was raised at Oakesdale and now resides in Tekoa. Gregory worked on the book project for approximately a year. Called “Buckshot Pie,” the book chronicles the family’s early struggles to homestead half a section of land in the Winona area, their enduring drive to keep together and growing at Oakesdale during the Great Depression and their answers to a call to serve their country during World War II. “For the pas...
The governor recently signed a new law tightening the punishment for drunk driving. That is good. It was an easy thing to do politically. Nobody likes intoxicated drivers. They are a danger to other drivers and to pedestrians. Gradually, over the years, awareness and penalties have grown. Extra money has been made available to form special task forces to crack down on drunk drivers. While intoxicated drivers have long endangered others on the roadways, new dangers are emerging: Inattentive drivers. For years, drivers have put on makeup,...
In football, players who jump on the ball carrier after he’s been tackled get a 15-yard penalty for piling on. But in a courtroom, piling on can get you billions of dollars. That’s exactly what the trial lawyers are doing in the lawsuits against BP for the Deepwater Horizon spill. In 2010, BP’s oil rig exploded, killing 11 workers and spilling almost five million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico over 87 days. It was a disaster for BP and the Gulf states, but since then, the company has attempted to make amends. In 2012, BP agree...
The case of the city of Detroit isn’t much of a murder mystery. Various suspects have been fingered in its demise: The global economy. The fall of the auto industry. The decline of manufacturing generally. But it’s simpler than that. Detroit died of its own hand. The city undertook a controlled experiment in what happens if you are governed by a toxic combination of Great Society big spenders, race hustlers, crooks, public-sector unions and ineffectual reformers. It spent and misgoverned itself into the ground. Detroit discovered that all the...
REAL ESTATE SALES Sandra K. Kronemeyer, trustee, the Kronemeyer Family Revocable Living Trust, to Mary Lou Clauss, Pullman, house on SW Waldeigh in Pullman, $142,000, July 30. Suprateek and Saonee Sarker, Crozet, Va., to Andy R. and Jessica Viergutz-Cavagnetto, Pullman, house on SE Meadow Vale Drive in Pullman, $297,500, July 30. Robert E. and Nancy E. Kent, Pullman, to Amanda J. and Christopher B. Hutton, Pullman, house on SW Staley Drive in Pullman, $239,000, July 30. Copper Basin Construction, Hayden, Idaho, to Joseph and Rosemarie... Full story
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2008. An alert reader recently sent me an Associated Press story about a pig named Bruce and asked me if I were somehow related. By “alert,” I, of course, mean “smarty pants.” The story, though, is one I think a lot of women can relate to: Caroline Hayes, 63, of Uki, New South Wales, Australia, had a pig move into her house with her and demand she feed it and take care of it. When Caroline complained, the porker grew hostile, until Caroline felt that she was virtually hostage i...
A Sept. 16 trial date has been slated for Rickey Lee Fargo after he pleaded not guilty July 26 in Superior Court to assault charges. Fargo has been formally charged with third degree assault, fourth degree assault with domestic violence and harassment with domestic violence. Fargo was arrested at Pullman after police responded to a call on SW Shirley Street. He was booked into jail here and bond for pre-trial release was set at $10,000. The third degree assault alleges Fargo hit Pullman Officer Derek Lambert. In his arrest report, Lambert...
Steven Crandall, former Endicott resident now of Spokane, was sentenced to 364 days in jail with all but six of them suspended and credit for time served July 26 in superior court. Crandall pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of fourth degree assault with domestic violence. He was charged with hitting his step-son last Dec. 15 in Endicott. Crandall Friday told the court he has been enrolled in a treatment program for domestic violence and realizes what he did was wrong. He was ordered by the court to complete the domestic violence treatment as...
Tyler McNannay, Palouse, was unhurt Monday when he lost control of a 2003 Ford F2 pickup truck on Highway 272 near the Glenwood Road intersection. According to the Washington State Patrol report, McNannay was driving westbound at 2:20 p.m. when he lost control of the truck. It crossed the roadway, came back to the westbound lane and struck a rock embankment on the west side of the highway.... 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. SPOKANE FIRM OFFERS LOW BID Transtech Engineering, Inc., Spokane, had the apparent low bid for the sidewalk construction project on Third and Clay streets in Colfax. The low bid was $118,996. Other bidders on the project were M.L. Albright, Lewiston, $132,937, and Ace Elliot, Pullman, $144,977. Engineer Munir Daud of Pullman estimated the cost...
Pomeroy swimmers rolled home from Colfax late Saturday with the Cluckey Cup for the seventh straight year after posting a strong win in the championship meet Saturday at Colfax. The Pomeroy swimmers stacked up 498.5 points for the team win, a margin of more than 215 over second-place Pullman. The two - hour awards ceremony capped a day of competition for 208 swimmers entered from seven teams in the summer’s novice competition. Two Pomeroy girls, Kacey Halbert and Ireland Mayfield, tied with 40 p...
CLUCKEY MEMORIAL CHAMPIONSHIP August 3, 2013 Team scores 1. POMEROY 497.5 2. PULLMAN 281 3. DAYTON 193 4. S.E.L. 169.5 5. T.O.R. 104 6. GARFIELD-PALOUSE 102 7. COLFAX 100 100 YARD FREESTYLE Girls: 12 & Under: 1. Dani Johnson POM 1:13; 2. Drew Brewer SEL 1:20; 3. Elsie Lupkes PUL 1:27; 4. Joslin Haggins DAY 1:29.41; 5. Makayla Miller POM 1:29.67; 6. Tia Krekula DAY 1:31. 13-14: 1. Kacey Halbert POM 1:11; 2. Josie Riebold COL 1:13; 3. Lyssa Blood G-P 1:14; 4. Tabitha McCoard POM 1:15; 5. Emma Horstkamp PUL 1:17.59; 6. Taylor Hays DAY 1:17.73....
