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In the superior court of the State of Washington for the county of Whitman, Whitman County, Building Dept. Plaintiff, vs. LIA JUNE BERG, Defendant. No. 17-2-00160-38 SUMMONS BY PUBLICATION The State of Washington to the said Defendant, Lia June Berg You are hereby summoned to appear within sixty (60) days after the date of the first publication of this summons, to wit, within sixty (60) days after the 27th day of July, 2017, and defend the above entitled action in the above entitled court, and answer the complaint of the plaintiff, Whitman...
A graveside service for Elna Anne Sharp Paulson, 87, retired Rosalia teacher, was Wednesday morning, Aug. 16, 2017, at the Bethel Cemetery in Steptoe followed by a formal memorial service at the Rosalia United Methodist Church. Mrs. Paulson died Aug. 10, 2017. Born Oct. 4, 1929, in Spokane, to Dewey and Georgia Land Sharp, she was raised in Steptoe and was the salutatorian of the Steptoe High School class of 1947. She continued her education at Eastern Washington College and graduated in 1951. S... Full story
A cat attempts to lure a wary mouse around the corner at Pearson Farm & Fence in Colfax. This street art, by artist Nancy Rothwell, is the latest installment in the Colfax Art Council's continuing Crack Art program. More information about the program, including how to contribute, can be found on the Colfax Chamber of Commerce website: https://www.explorecolfax.com/projects...
8 years ago The Commoner Aug. 12, 1892 For weeks the streets of the city and hillsides roundabout have exhibited deep gashes up and down and across them. These ghastly cuts were the trenches dug by a small army of laborers to receive the mains and pipes of Colfax's $43,000 water system. The laying of pipes and mains is now about completed. There are now about 1400 or 1500 feet to place, and the material for this has not yet arrived. The progress of work on the system is progressing rapidly. The following facts in this relation were learned...
Thursday, Aug. 17 Colfax – 10 a.m. – WSU Cleans Up Colfax – Students and staff from WSU’s Center for Civic Engagement will be cleaning up Main Street. If interested in volunteering, contact library director, Kristie Kirkpatrick at kirkpatr@colfax.com. Colton – 3 p.m. – Jump Rope Project – Kids 10+ are invited to reduce, reuse, recycle by making plastic bag jump ropes. Rosalia – 3 to 5 p.m. – Overdrive and Technology Help – Learn to navigate Overdrive, the library's free digital book source. We will be available to answer your Overdrive and gene...
A small group attended the Aug. 8 luncheon for Colfax graduates in Spokane Valley. The next luncheon will be Oct. 10. In front are Sandra Hubbard Conti (1956), Jayne Carson Reynolds (1962), Barbara Long Martin (1953), Marilyn Vannice Ray (1959), Carol Haxton Rubin (1960), Elaine Morris Krouse (1962) and Jim Krouse (1963). In back are Duane Colvin (1952), Larry Brownell (1952), Delmar Teade (1952), Bob Lonn (1961), Jerry Martin (1953), Joe Reynolds (1967) and Mark Rubin (1959)...
Dahmen books marimba band Dahmen Barn at Uniontown will present the Sesitshaya Marimba Band in an outdoor concert Saturday, Aug. 19, from 7 to 9 p.m. The band plays traditional and contemporary songs from Sub-Saharan Africa and shares the lively rhythmic sounds of the sonorous Kwanongoma marimbas of Zimbabwe. Built in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, they produce the full earthy tones that characterize the music and are the only Kwanongomas in the region. They also play music from South Africa, Kenya, Zambia and the Caribbean Islands. The band began in...
Julie Roberts came to Whitman County in the early 1980s when her family moved to Hooper so her Dad could take a job on the Harder ranch. She graduated from LaCrosse High School and stayed in the area. She is married to Cam Roberts, and they live on the farm and run mostly black Angus cattle. Meanwhile her mom, Darlene Kates, took over the Dusty Café in the late 1980s. Mother and daughter operated the café together until June of 2005. At that time, Darlene went to work at one of the i...
Rosalia The 2017-18 Rosalia-Malden-Thornton community calendars are still available to order. All proceeds from the advertisements and calendar sales will go to the Rosalia Community Float and Royalty Association which builds and maintains the Rosalia Community Float and sponsors the Miss Rosalia and Mr. RHS programs. The calendars cost $8, and family birthdates and anniversaries can be added. Other important community events including Timberwolf fall and winter sports schedules, school...
Keith Danielson of Hooper, courier for his wife Carla’s entries in the Inspired Palouse exhibit, diligently fills out the entry paperwork at The Center Monday. All 37 entries had been delivered by 8 p.m. The exhibit will open Aug. 18, where the public can enter a ballot for People’s Choice award. The reception and art sale are scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 26. Colfax Arts Council will host 18 artists from Whitman County, Spokane, Lewiston, Moscow and Deary, Idaho, and Anacortes at the first “In...
Inductees to the Pullman Walk of Fame will be honored during the 29th annual National Lentil Festival at 10 a.m. Saturday at the corner of Kamiaken and Main streets. The Walk of Fame was established in 2003 to honor individuals who have served the Pullman community in a significant way, promoted goodwill, improved the quality of life for Pullman residents or brought acclaim to the area through their contributions. This year’s inductees bring the number of commemorative granite plaques to 105. Each plaque has the names of these individuals i...
The City of Moscow has put out a call to artists for vinyl wrap designs for traffic boxes. The call is open to individuals who are 18 or older who live in Latah, Nez Perce, Asotin or Whitman counties, or who are Nez Perce or Coeur d'Alene tribal members. The city has selected four traffic control boxes in Moscow for the vinyl art installations. The boxes are located at the corners of Jackson and A streets, Jackson and College streets, Sixth and Alley streets and at the waste water treatment plant entrance near Warbonnet Road and Highway 8. The... Full story
Dusty Art and Colene Sager just returned from a week in Minneapolis, Minn. While there, they attended the International Flying Farmer Convention. Highlights of the convention included touring the Vikings football stadium where the next Super Bowl will be played, a river boat trip on the Mississippi River including going through the locks and a tour of the original Gold Medal Flour mill which has been made into a museum, showing working conditions and equipment during earlier days. The convention hotel was connected to the Mall of America, so... Full story
--Sharon Lindsay photo This Western Meadowlark seemed unaware of the heat as it sang Sunday, Aug. 6, from a mullein stalk along Ragon Road on the north side of Steptoe Butte.... Full story
The Port of Whitman County two weeks ago discussed a water and sewer line it installed in Pullman four years ago and the future plans for development along that line. Port Executive Director Joe Poiré reported to commissioners two weeks ago that he has been in discussions with the Pullman Public Works department to determine how the Port will be reimbursed for the water and sewer lines when development occurs. “We turn in this map and say 'we paid a million to bring water and sewer out to this line,'” explained Poiré. “The city reimbur...
Whitman County's former finance director, Cinnamon Brown, was scheduled to go to trial in Mason County Superior Court on Aug. 8 for fraud and forgery charges. Brown, 33, however, did not show up for a pre-trial hearing on July 24. This was the third attempt at a pre-trial hearing, and a warrant was issued for Brown's arrest for the failure to appear, according to a report in the Shelton-Mason County Journal. According to that report, Brown appeared with her court-appointed attorney John Minarik Monday, Aug. 7, and at that time, Minarik asked... Full story
--Don Marshall photo The rapid wingbeat and similar size can confuse the hummingbird hawk moth with a hummingbird. While other moths land before collecting nectar, the hummingbird hawk moth hovers while gathering nectar through a long tube which remains curled beneath its head until needed, kind of like in-flight refueling of modern military aircraft. Look for them near sunset on flowers such as the pink petunias seen in this photo taken in Oakesdale....
County Coroner Peter Martin has seen a lot in his years as coroner. He has witnessed families in distressing times and seen several crime scenes. The case that still haunts him, though, happened 36 years ago. Martin had been serving as coroner for just four months when, in July of 1981, a dismembered body was discovered in the Snake River. The body was determined to be Kristin Noelle David. She had disappeared on a bike ride from Moscow to Lewiston on June 26, 1981. The University of Idaho student was 22. “It was the most horrific homicide I...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Andrew Jason Shumate, 30, and Holly Lyne DeHart, 24, both Pullman, Aug. 8. Jeffrey Carlton Hall, 33, and Amanda Rae Brown, 30, both Endicott, Aug. 8.PU Morgan Christopher Howard, 33, and Abby Lynne Myers, 30, both Pullman, Aug. 8. Ryan James Larson, 27, and Alexandra Rae Germer, 23, both Potlatch, Aug. 9. Cameron Allan Rose, 36, and Hale Jean Tate, 28, both Coeur d’Alene, Aug. 9. Quoc Minh Nguyen, 42, and Tho Ngoc Pham, 33, both Pullman, Aug. 14. Eric Andrew Silk, and Marie Michele Wagner, 23, both Pullman, Aug. 14. Hayden J...
Massive forest fires in western parts of Canada and the U.S. are not only choking us with layers of smoke, but are cutting off lumber supplies around our country. The result is the cost of a new home is rising because of the growing shortage of framing lumber and laminated decking. The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported combination of the wildfires and the 30 percent tariff President Trump slapped on Canadian lumber producers are causing lumber shortages and drove up the average prices on new single-family homes nationwide to $406,400 in May....
Qualified? Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers said at her Aug. 10 Town Hall meeting, “I support Donald Trump because, because, because he’s a disrupter and we need to change DC. I continue to support him.” When a later question about Donald Trump was asked, she said, “Donald Trump was elected POTUS. He won the election and I’ve already told you why I support him.” So, being a disrupter is McMorris Rodgers qualification for POTUS? Another woman recently disagreed with her when she said she thought the POTUS should be: “Someone who knows his...
The first thing to know about the instantly infamous "anti-diversity screed" written by a Google software engineer is that it isn't anti-diversity or a screed. The loaded description, widely used in the press and on social media, is symptomatic of the pearl-clutching over the memo, which questions the premises and effectiveness of Google's diversity policies. The document was meant -- before getting splashed on the internet -- as an internal conversation-starter. The author posits that innate differences between the sexes may account for the... Full story
At the beginning of my reporting career, I covered a federal judge hearing a civil suit against National Guardsmen several years after the Kent State killings. The judge refused to allow transcripts of grand jury testimony from earlier criminal proceedings into evidence. Grand juries are supposed to be secret, he ruled, and allowing their deliberations into the record would mean they'd become public. Unfortunately -- or fortunately, depending on one's perspective -- I had gotten my hands on the transcripts from sources I won't identify to this... Full story
On Monday, a total eclipse of the sun will darken parts of the country. The “path of totality” will be just south of us. It will cross onto the continent north of Newport, Ore., and will continue across the country to South Carolina with a 70-mile wide swath. The “path of totality” will pass over 14 states. In Whitman County, we will see a partial eclipse. The eclipse here will be more than 90 percent of a total eclipse. Interest in the event is high. Some airline flight plans have been changed to give passengers a glimpse. A special Amtrak tra...
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. CEMETERY LEVY PASSES BY THREE VOTES The Colfax Cemetery District's $250,000 special levy proposal officially passed by a margin of three yes votes. The district picked up nine more yes votes in the final count which was conducted Monday. The measure had been believed to be in trouble because of a lack of the required turnout of voters after the... Full story
