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IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF WHITMAN IN THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF STEVE A. McSWEENEY, Deceased. NO. 15-4-00087-5 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a claim against the decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the...
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Week of Aug. 24-28 Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Lentil and sausage casserole, French bread, sliced pears, carrots and celery, sherbet cups, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Picnic in the Park. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday — Lentil and sausage casserole, French bread, sliced pears, carrots and celery, sherbet cups, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday — Swiss steak, rice, baked zucchini, fruit, milk, coffee or tea. Friday — Mojito lime chicken, pasta salad, ca...
Gary L. Ackerman, 73, long time area farmer, died unexpectedly of natural causes at his home on Lake Coeur d'Alene near Worley, Idaho, early Tuesday morning. Bruning Funeral Home of Colfax in making arrangements....
8 years ago The Commoner Aug. 22, 1890 An important acquisition to the industrial enterprises of this city is the Golden Rule roller mill which will begin to turn out flour next week. Palouse City may well be proud of this mill for it is by far the largest in the Palouse country and one of the best equipped in the Northwest. The machiner is all of the celebrated Nordyke & Marmon company's make, and embraces the very latest improvements. No expense has been spared in the construction and equipment of the mill. It has a capacity of...
Paul J. Ruediger, 59, longtime St. John area resident, died at Whitman Health & Rehab Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. Arrangements are being finalized with Bruning Funeral Home in Colfax and will be announced in next week's edition of the Gazette....
Eleven members of the Colfax High School class of 1952 attended the 63-year reunion dinner at Colfax Golf Club July 29. In front are Shirley (Bergland) Tulin, Colfax; Shirley (Brannan) Magrath, Spokane; Pat (Henry) Norris, Mercer Island; Britta Jo (Torrance) Hammond, Ellensburg, and Gerald Mitchell, Colfax. In back are Suzanne Mattes, Seattle; Bill Meters, Spokane; Larry Browned, Coeur d'Alene; Del Teade, Colfax; Clayton Nolan, Sparks, Nev., and Don Steiger, Menlo Park, Calif...
Thursday, August 20 St. John - 11 a.m. - Teen Watercolor Art for grades 5 and up. Learn watercolor pencil techniques and effects. Tekoa - Noon - Game Day fun with crafts, board games and Wii. Colfax - Noon - Flex & Flow Yoga, improve balance and strength with Suzy McNeilly Saturday, August 22 Albion - 12 p.m. - Children's Book Reception - Thanks to community donations and the Libri Foundation the Albion Library received 80 new books for age 0 to 18. Celebrate with fun and refreshments. Colfax - 8:30 to 9:45 a.m. - Hatha Yoga - Your first class...
Wizard of Oz opens tonight for two-week run at RTOP The Wizard of Oz opens tonight, Thursday, at the Regional Theatre of the Palouse in downtown Pullman for a two-week run. Performance dates will be Aug. 20-23 and Aug. 26-30 with evening performances at 7:30 and matinee performances at 1:30 p.m. This stage version of the musical is based on the 1939 MGM film which starred Judy Garland as Dorothy. Dorothy will be played by Jordan Eby of Moscow, double cast with Daphne Felsted of Pullman. Other cast member include Scarecrow, Peter Hanes of...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Tuesday, Aug. 25: Colfax and Steptoe, 121 N. Main, Colfax, 3 to 6 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 26: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia United Methodist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 3 to 6 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27: Albion City Hall, 4 to 6 p.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 6:30 to 8 p.m.; Malden/Pine City Town Hall, 8 to 10 a.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Chur...
This photo of the Northern Lights and Milky Way was taken by David Calixto of Bellevue last week while attending a Palouse Country Photo Tour/Workshop hosted by Jack Lien of Colfax....
The Dahmen Barn Summer Concert Series drew another big turnout for mandolin/fiddle player Richard Kriehn, a former Colton resident and current member of the band which plays on the long-running public radio show, “A Prairie Home Companion.” As a summer music series winds down in the unfinished addition to the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown, funds for its completion have been secured. “From here and there and a little bit somewhere else,” said Dale Miller, president of the Uniontown Community Developme...
Rev. Ed Hamshar was born in Priest River, Idaho. He grew up with four siblings on a farm his grandmother homesteaded. New to Whitman County are the Rev. Ed and Mrs. Nila Hamshar from Benton City. Rev. Hamshar is pastor to the United Methodist Churches in Colfax and St. John. They reside in the parsonage in St. John. The Rev. Hamshar was born in Priest River, Idaho, and grew up with three older siblings and one younger sister on a farm that his grandfather homesteaded. He enjoyed attending his...
Rosalia Branch Manager Marcy Campbell reads to children on the library's new ladybug rug. The Alice Porter Memorial Library is celebrating 10 years of serving the Rosalia community with several improvement projects both inside and outside the library building. The building, previously the Ladybug Drive-In, was donated by the Porter family to be used by the town as a library. Earlier this spring, newly elected town council member Paige Collins spearheaded a fund-raiser that purchased a beautiful...
Irish-Australian storyteller Joe Lynch will perform folk tales, yarns, poetry and original stories Sunday, Aug. 23, at the Budding Rose Gallery in Rosalia beginning at 7 p.m. Admission will be by donation. Born in the foothills of the Cork and Kerry mountains of Ireland, he emigrated to Australia 30 years ago. Lynch carried the stories of the traveling shanachies, or storytellers, who recounted the ancient Celtic myths and tales, full of wisdom, romance and mystery. He has performed in many...
Dusty Thursday, several locals were among approximately 45 guests who attended the 99th birthday party at the Pastime Tavern in LaCrosse for Nona Camp. It was a no-host luncheon with cake served to the guests later. Donna Camp, former Whitman County resident, came from her home in Spokane to join in the celebration. Also attending were Nona’s sons Morrie Camp, LaCrosse, and Merrill and Gloria Camp, Walla Walla. Last week, Colene Sager and Vicki Broeckel took a sight-seeing flight, with Sager as the pilot, over Palouse Falls and over the B...
Steve Schierman of Puyallup and son, also Steve, a student at Whitworth, stand next to the portrait of the late Maj. Wesley D. Schierman at the St. John Museum. An Air Force pilot, Maj. Schierman was a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for more than seven years. Artifacts from the late Wesley D. Schierman, the St. John High School graduate who was a prisoner of war in Vietnam for more than seven years, were donated to the St. John Museum last week by his son, Steve Schierman of Puyallup, and...
The Mockonema 4H Club poses in front of the Homestead Ministries trailer after assembling soup packets. When Tom Riedner and Greg Nolan began Homestead Ministries a year ago, they might not have been able to imagine how much of an impact they could have in such a short time. "We have gone from absolutely nothing to where we're in the black," Riedner said. "I gave it to God, and He went ahead and ran with it." Homestead Ministries is a nondenominational, faith-based volunteer organization that su...
The sun took on a red glow Friday evening with the light filtered by smoke and dust at sunset. The strong winds which hit the area whipped up flames in fires around the Inland Northwest and took a heavy toll. The Harvard area of Idaho and the Clearwater Valley sustained heavy damage. This photo was taken with the top of the Jones School at the Palouse Empire Fairgrounds in the foreground. Cloud cover masked the sun a few minutes after this picture was taken....
MARRIAGE LICENSES Taras Nazarov, 30, and Tiuk Ganna Kondra, 28, both Pullman, Aug. 11. Jeffery Rylee Young, 29, and Stephanie Renee Lucks, 29, both Moscow, Aug. 14. Travis Gary Gray, 36, and Lael Eileen Gatewood, 35, both Pullman, Aug. 17. Scott Theman Robinson, 41, and Michele Ann Anderson, 48, both Pullman, Aug. 17. REAL ESTATE SALES Robert Horner, Tum Tum, to Horner Enterprises LLC, Okemos, Mich., lot in Holbrooks addition, Pullman, $82,580, July 15. Brenda Caroll Dillard trust to American Towers LLC, tower site two miles south of Colfax,...
Imagine rolling into Olympia in your travel trailer each year for the start of the legislative session knowing your district has the highest unemployment in the state and the lowest average annual wage. Folks in your sprawling rural 7th District earn between $15,000 and $20,000 less than the state average wage. Stevens, Pend Orielle, Ferry and Okanogan counties are rich in minerals and have abundant forests and natural public grazing lands, but over the years mining, logging and lumber mill jobs dried up, in large part due to government...
Motley & Motley crews excavate at the airport site with flags on their equipment to alert airplanes in the area of the construction work to rebuild the runway at the Colfax airport....
Rewarding I am glad to see that at least one citizen of Colfax has recently visited the Perkins House. It is certainly true that this historic building and its grounds are the pride of Colfax. Unfortunately only three Colfax residents stepped up to join the Whitman County Historical Society’s Perkins House Committee. The committee chairperson is from Oakesdale. The person that worked for four days to make sure the grounds were ready for the Ice Cream Social is from Thornton. The person that organized the social and coordinated all exhibits a...
Donald Trump is given to superlatives, so let's do him the honor of pronouncing him the most fabulous whiner in all of American politics. By Trump's own account, he's the baddest, smartest thing going, except if you ask him a challenging question, in which case he kicks and screams and demands to know how anyone could treat him so unfairly. Trump followed up his shaky-at-best performance at the first Republican candidate debate, hosted by Fox News, with days complaining that he hadn't been afforded the respect he deserves. According to Trump,...
If you want to start a vigorous discussion, ask this question: Do you think we are too politically correct in this country? Let's thank Donald Trump (I never thought I'd say those words) for raising the issue, which he did in the highly entertaining first Republican debate. Trump pushed our buttons with: "The big problem this country has is being politically correct. I've been challenged by so many people, and I don't frankly have time for total political correctness. And to be honest with you, this country doesn't have time either."...
