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Dear Savvy Senior, When my neighbor applied for his retirement benefits last year, he found that Social Security had made some mistakes on his earnings record in past years, which caused him to get a monthly benefit check that was lower than it should have been. He never got it straightened out. How can I make sure this doesn’t happen to me? Paranoid Paul Dear Paul, The best way to keep an eye on your Social Security benefits and avoid any possible mistakes is to carefully review your Social Security statement, which you can now do online. J...
8 years ago August 19, 1887 There was a fire in Colfax, Calif., last week and it is going the rounds of the territorial press as having occurred in this town. We have had no fire lately. We don’t want any. Notwithstanding the fact that work is plenty everywhere this time of year, several tramps have been begging for something to eat at different private houses in Colfax the past week. People who feed them only encourage idleness. The best way to get rid of them is to ask them to saw wood. A kitchen and dining room on wheels attracted much a...
NOTICE Tekoa Parks and Recreation District #6 Board Position #1 opening please attend our next meeting, Tuesday, September 11 at 7pm at the Tekoa City Hall. For more info call Amie at (509) 284-2382. 33/2 Summary of TOWN OF GARFIELD Ordinance No. 421N. AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2012. Section 1. The Annual Budget for the year 2012 is hereby amended as follows. Section 2. Amends certain funds (Current Expense Fund $241,565 Rev, $183,841 Exp; Current Expense Resv $47,500 Rev, $8,000 Exp; City Street...
Tekoa School: Monday — No Meal Service Tuesday — No Meal Service Wednesday — No Meal Service Thursday — Chicken alfredo, tossed salad, peaches, goodie Friday — No Meal Service COUNCIL ON AGINGSENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Chef salad, peaches, breadstick, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Chef salad, peaches, breadstick, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — Chef salad, peaches, breadstick, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center has a variety of surgical specialties available. This includes general surgery, orthopedics, plastics, urology, gynecology, outpatient neurosurgery, ophthalmic (eye) and podiatry. Our mix of 50 surgery patients per month is one-third inpatient and two-thirds outpatient. In addition to surgeries, Same Day Services also provides outpatient therapies such as injections, transfusions and complex dressing changes. Our surgical providers include: Palouse Surgeons Three Forks Orthopedics Inland Orthopedics Palouse...
Whitman County Humane Society seeks sponsors and vendors for the fourth annual Mutt Strutt scheduled at Pullman’s Reaney Park Saturday, Sept. 29, to raise funds for the dog park adjacent to AnimalHaven, the WCHS pet shelter. The park is now under construction. It will be the first off-leash dog park in Whitman County. Funding comes solely from donations by individuals and businesses. The Mutt Strutt sponsorship deadline is Sept. 1. Vendor reservations are due Sept. 14. This year’s Mutt Strutt will also feature the fun walk, door prizes, dog...
Dusty Shirley Eggers said there is a very small crop of peaches this year at Warm Springs Ranch orchard along the Snake River at Penawawa. The cool, wet spring meant the bees did not come out to pollinate the blossoms. Dick and Suzy McNeilly have had her daughter Christina and two sons, Mason and Aidan, visiting for the past two and a half weeks from Camp LeJeune, N.C. They enjoyed a trip to Joseph and the Imnaha and the many combine and tractor rides. Walt Smith and son Parker helped Harmon Smith with harvest last week. Parker spent time...
Shandra Bohn and James Nichols are a busy cooking couple. They are the ultimate foodies, subscribing to seven food and cooking magazines and watching the Food Channel as much as possible. They are pleased to be sharing their ideas and talent with two sororities at the University of Idaho. Shandra works for Kappa Delta, and her husband cooks for Delta Delta Delta. They live in Palouse, so the commute is usually easy. Shandra’s family taught her to cook at an early age. Her mother, Tina Ochs, and grandmother, Helen Callison Ochs, were both a...
Colfax area residents relaxed in the park while a jazz band assembled by Mathew Scholz, University of Idaho graduate music student from Colfax, performed in Schmuck Park Sunday evening. Andrew Hurley, Connor Bucknell and Kendall Clinton roast their S’Mores over the park fire pit. Kellen Morgan, a 2011 Colfax grade, upper right, adjusted his drum set before playing in the second segment of the program. Miriam “Buffy” Kruse of Garfield holds Mason DeBolt next to her son, Scott Kruse, during a break. The concert was sponsored by the Buffy... Full story
Palouse slates third ‘under the stars’ event The Bank Left Gallery/Bistro and downtown shops in Palouse will have their third annual shopping and dining “Under the Stars” event Aug. 18 from 5 to 7 p.m. All downtown shops will stay open until 7 p.m. for a night of live music, antiques, wine, art and food. The Bank Left Bistro will feature an evening French breakfast from 7 to 9 p.m. Moscow jazz musician Geoff Allen will perform. Library meetings off Whitman County Library board of trustees and the Friends of the Library will not meet in August a... Full story
The History Channel • On Aug. 28, 1774, Elizabeth Ann Bayley is born in New York City. She went on to found the first Catholic school and the first female apostolic community in the United States. She also was the first American-born saint beatified by the Roman Catholic Church. • On Sept. 1, 1850, circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum brings to the United States Jenny Lind, the greatest opera performer in the world in the mid-19th century. Lind — “The Swedish Nightingale” — was a sensation. Her tour is believed to have netted Barnum close to a...
Michael P. Walsh, 22, Pullman, has been summoned to court Aug. 17 after a charge of malicious mischief in the second degree was filed against him last Friday in superior court. The Pullman Police report filed with the charge alleges Walsh was observed hitting and kicking the side of a Mercedes which was parked in the Adams Mall lot on campus last April 5. The report said the suspect denied kicking the side of the car, but police determined a shoe print on the side of the car matched the sole pattern on shoes he was wearing. Estimates for...
Dustin C. Mattson, 41, Moscow, was identified Thursday, Aug. 9, as the suspect in a two-week-old case in which farmers reported farm implements were cut up and hauled away, presumably for scrap iron value. A report Wednesday, Aug. 8, by Sgt. Keith Cooper said Mattson admitted involvement in two thefts in eastern Whitman County and also another reported theft along Estes Road in Latah County. Farmers discovered field equipment had been cut apart and then later hauled away. Mattson is expected to face charges in Whitman County of theft,...
The suit filed to challenge Whitman County’s commitment for the stateline shopping mall project, which was one of the key topics in the Aug. 7 primary election race, has not yet advanced to a trial date. Pullman Attorney Tim Esser filed the suit Jan. 23 against the county and Hawkins Companies, the site developer. Esser filed the suit on behalf of OVIC, the Organization to Void Illegal Conduct. Members of the OVIC group donated funds to Art Swannack, who led the returns primary night in the district one commissioner race. Commissioner Greg P...
Farmington voters passed both a street improvement and maintenance levy last week in the primary after having three similar levies turned down last November. “It’s good news,” said Mayor Ron Dugan. “Hopefully the town has confidence in their government to spend the money wisely and efficiently.” The votes were close. Needing a 60 percent majority to pass, the $10,000 street maintenance levy, proposition one, passed by a margin of three votes, and the $15,000 general fund levy passed by two votes...
What’s in there Everybody’s talkin’ ‘bout it: Mitt Romney’s refusal to release any more of his tax returns. Wondering what might be hidden in there that could make suspicion less damaging than revelation? Pulitzer prize winning reporter David Cay Johnston exposes many of the most common and outrageous possibilities in his book, “Perfectly legal: The covert campaign to rig our tax system to benefit the super rich—and cheat everybody else”. He’s as fun to read as Louis Grizzard or Bill Hall, with citations to support his case. It’s a book all o... Full story
Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, Inc., has announced the start of construction on a new 97,000-square-foot building on their Pullman campus. The building will have a footprint similar to the Solution Delivery Center finished earlier this year and will sit adjacent to the SEL Event Center and company headquarters on Schweitzer Drive. Groundwork has been steady on the new building, which will house laboratory space and research and development offices. The building will feature concrete tilt-up exterior wall panels and steel framing. This is... Full story
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Wednesday, August 29: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, August 30: Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 8 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, August 31: Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building,...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Andrew J. Berglund, 22, and Brianne Parsons, 27, both Moscow, Aug. 13. Truyen M. Nguyen, 26, and Nguyet M. Ngo, 23, both Pullman, Aug. 10. Edgardo L. Torres, 22, Yakima, and Marlene J. Hernandez, 25, Pullman, Aug. 10. Pius M. Ndegwa, 50, and Feliciana M. Machir, 39, both Pullman, Aug. 9. Adam N.O. Malcom, 34, and Lisa M. Roberts, 34, both Pullman, Aug. 9. Mark R. Munoz, 30, and Michelle E. Winmill, 26, both Pullman, Aug. 7. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS PNW Farmers Cooperative, Johnson, re-roof, $20,000, Aug. 13. Margaret... Full story
President Obama’s national health care law, the Affordable Care Act, will extend health care coverage to tens of millions of uninsured Americans. But health care coverage isn’t the same as health care. The problem is a shortage of doctors. The New York Times reports that, just as the ACA is poised to add millions to the health insurance rolls, the U.S. is on the brink of a critical doctor shortage. The Association of American Medical Colleges estimates that by 2015, the U.S. will have 62,900 fewer doctors than needed, a figure that will mor...
THERE SEEMS to be a “deteriorating relationship” developing between the media and politicians, Reliable Sources talk show host Howard Kurtz opined the other day, as if he hadn’t noticed it had deteriorated a long time ago. Depending on who the candidate is, of course. Mitt Romney was hassled in Poland while walking back from laying a wreath on their Tomb of the Unknown Soldier by reporters who shouted “What about the gaffes?” not once but twice, first a male reporter, then a woman. Romney wisely kept his mouth shut but one of his aides responde... Full story
Commissioner Greg Partch did not garner the support he needed in last week’s primary. He finished third in a three-man race. As a result, the sitting commissioner will be out of office at the end of his term. Now, the District 1 race for his seat is down to Art Swannack and Bill Tensfeld, both Republicans. Commissioner Pat O’Neill, Democrat representing District 2, will again face Dean Kinzer, a Republican, in the general election. Kinzer received the most votes in their first contest. Rarely has the county seen such emotion and potential tur...
A Hypochondriac’s Compendium W. Bruce Cameron Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2007. Because I’m technically over 40, it’s been a bad year for me health-wise. I’ve had a host of ailments, including an appendicitis attack, spleen disruptions and liver migrations, all made worse by the fact that my doctor doesn’t agree that I’ve had any of them. Instead, he says I have mild hypochondria, which is silly — I have major hypochondria! A hypochondriac is a person who gets a disease by hearing about it. So when, for ex...
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. **************** JURY VERDICT: NOT GUILTY A superior court jury Monday found John Dixon Clark, 39, not guilty of two charges filed against him. The Post Falls resident was arrested by deputies in the early morning hours of May 12 after a Pine City couple reported a man was walking around their property. The jury brought in its verdicts at 6:27... Full story
TRIVIA TEST 1. LANGUAGE: In English slang, what is a jumper? 2. LITERATURE: What author used the pen name Ellis Bell? 3. SUPERHEROES: Who was the Green Hornet’s sidekick? 4. GEOGRAPHY: What is the capital of Laos? 5. MUSIC: The film “Rhapsody in Blue” was a biographical movie about what composer? 6. MOVIES: Who wrote the music score to the movie “Jaws”? 7. AD SLOGANS: “You can trust your car to the man who wears the star” was an advertising slogan of what company? 8. GENERAL KNOWLEDGE: What was the original name of the island that is home...
