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After 40 snaps at the six-team Ritzville jamboree last Friday, Aug. 24, the Colfax High School football team will board a bus at 6 a.m. Thursday, today, for a trip to Wahkiakum, in southwest Washington. In the first year of a home-and-home, four team east-west exchange, Colfax will play the Mules on Saturday at 1 p.m., after Liberty and Napavine play at 10 a.m. Arriving Thursday afternoon, each team will hold a practice, followed by a barbecue with the four teams and coaches. "It's gonna be a gr...
Garfield/Palouse returns to football season Sept. 7 at home in Palouse against 2017 state runner-up Sunnyside Christian. The Southeast 1B league game will be a new beginning for Gar/Pal as assistant Garrett Parrish takes over for Will Woltering as head coach, assisted by his father Dan, a veteran Vikings assistant going back to 2001. Another change will be at quarterback, following the graduation of three-year starter Evan Weagraff. He is succeeded by sophomore Austin Jones. The...
Sprint boats returned to St. John last week for the second of two summer races Saturday. A total of 35 boats competed at Webb's Slough in three classes, powered by augmented former pickup truck engines in two of them. Modified Class is for 350-maximum cubic-inch engines, 400 Class means 400 cubic-inch maximum and the Unlimited class allows for turbo-charged and supercharged engines. The boats race for time, running individually on the winding course. Whoever makes it through fastest wins. On...
Long-serving Senator John McCain died Saturday. His death was anticipated. He had been suffering from brain cancer for months. A week of remembrances is underway. A memorial service is planned for Saturday with his burial on Sunday. Among others, both former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush will give eulogies. Both defeated McCain in his bids for the presidency. This in itself says a lot about McCain. He was revered by many. He was respected by many more. Most importantly, he worked with politicians in both parties. He was also...
President Donald Trump was bitterly disappointed that he was forced to cancel his ego trip down Washington, D.C., streets. The parade of U.S. military units was to be his biggest display yet of people marching in lockstep, bigger even than any gathering of Republicans. He really wanted to stand on a reviewing stand as the troops and hardware did their thing below -- just like they do for Kim Jong Un, Vladimir Putin and the others he wants to emulate -- but the disclosed cost of $92 million for this Defense Department dog and pony show is...
John Brennan may not know it, but he is acting in a drama scripted and produced by Donald J. Trump. As Eli Lake of Bloomberg perceptively observed, President Trump isn't trying to silence Brennan by revoking his security clearance, as the former CIA director's defenders insist, but elevate him as a foil. Trump couldn't hope for a better poster boy for the so-called deep state than a former CIA director who immediately began to sound like a commentator for MSNBC upon leaving government -- and, indeed, signed up as a commentator for MSNBC. It...
Pet Peeves The people that tell us what to do and try to control us, ran our debt up to 20 trillion. County allowing junk vehicles to sit on county road/right-of-way for weeks, months and years, doing nothing about it. Okeydokes Nice paint job at Les Schwab....
When does the bullying end? When did we start living in a time where it was okay to call people who don't agree with you names and judge them before you know them? How are we supposed to teach our youth that bullying is not okay when all they have to do is open the newspaper and see Trump supporters being called names? I am fortunate that my job lets me work with all walks of people. I am honest when I say that I have never refused to help someone based on their race, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, or their political views. I was...
While waiting outside the Spokane Valley City Council in July, I met an elderly woman who was very proud that she grew up in Idaho and now lived in the Spokane Valley. We had a brief discussion about immigration, and she just couldn’t understand why all the migrants were coming to the United States with their children. “Why don’t they just stay in their own countries and fix them, instead of coming here?” she queried. I responded by asking her, “Well, why do you think they come here?” and she said that they want our stuff. Later, I thought of...
Unlike more progressive cities with established goals and realistic expectations, Rosalia has been hobbled for years by questionable financial expenditures that may not have received the much needed input of interested town folk. This has resulted in wasted effort, ill conceived and executed building projects and a general feeling of discontent by locals. Several recent examples come to mind such as the loss of critically needed parking to host tournament and large function events that only the school facilities can accommodate. This needs to...
Last April, Washington wheat, apple and cherry growers hoped U.S. and China trade negotiators would resolve differences and prevent imposition of damaging tariffs on our state’s leading crops. Unfortunately, that did not happened and the costs are adding up. Thousands of Washington farmers now find themselves on the front lines of a battle between the two largest economies in the world. Here’s what has happened so far. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on $34...
A friend and I were engaged in a bit of fanciful wishful thinking the other day when he asked me how I would improve our country with a hundred million dollars or so. I quickly ran down the list of national problems we are rapidly leaving for our grandchildren. A hundred million wouldn’t do much for the national debt, so I scrolled down to our utter dependence on fossil fuels. I’m not concerned that our oil and coal reserves will run out in my lifetime, but the supply is finite and will eventually be depleted. In the long term, we have onl...
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. FIRE DEPARTMENT SET TO CLEAN UP Colfax Fire and Rescue conducted its quarterly road-side cleanup Tuesday beginning at 6:30 p.m. along two miles of Highway 195. The department's section of road begins at about the Albion junction. Signage and flags were out to alert motorists to the clean-up...
WSU's Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art last week received $270,000 in grant funding from the Henry Luce Foundation. The grant, which marks the largest sum donated to WSU's new museum, will be used to construct the Collections and Learning Gallery. The planned gallery would allow WSU to present artwork from the permanent collection in open storage, giving greater access to students and other visitors. “The Collections and Learning Gallery will fulfill our essential goal of bringing rare and important cultural materials to a greater degree of p...
With September quickly approaching, Summer Readers across Whitman County are finishing final chapters and submitting their reading logs to their local library to complete the program and qualify for grand prize drawings. To complete the program, adults had to complete three tasks from the Summer Reading checklist while teens needed to turn in their book reviews. Summer Reading for children officially ended earlier this month, but librarians are thrilled to accept late finishers and reward young...
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library will close Sept. 1-3 in honor of Labor Day. Due dates for library materials have been extended in anticipation of the closure and no late fines will be charged for these days. Drop boxes will remain open at all locations for returned items. Access to the library’s web resources including the catalog, downloadable audio and eBooks, Microsoft Imagine Academy and Events Calendar remain available at www.whitco.lib.wa.us. Libraries affected by the closure are: Albion, Colfax, Colton, Endicott, Farmington, G...
Dick and Helen Appel’s granddaughter, Beth Lohmeyer and her daughters, Kristen and Rebecca, visited the Appels for four days a couple of weeks ago so the girls could experience the farm and harvest as their mother had as a child. They live near Poulsbo and do not see combines. Anna, Chad, Iris and Owen Assareh spent a week helping with the Vogler harvest. Anna drove truck; Iris and Owen greased. The family picked peaches and packed harvest lunches. Iris would like to thank whoever was kind enough to find her shoe on Little Alkali Road and p...
Johanna was born and raised in Wolfsburg, Germany, a city that is well-known for having the largest Volkswagen manufacturing plant in the world. She has only called the Palouse region home for the last two weeks. Johanna applied to be part of a foreign exchange program, and while she was able to pick a very general location such as the western part of the United States, she was surprised to see her assignment was to come to a small farming community like Colfax. Johanna is quick to smile while...
The Town of Garfield has a new community committee in place to provide input on what may be done with the former Garfield Methodist Church, which was decommissioned in May. The committee is considering what to name the building and how acoustics will determine what it might be used for, also comparing it to other venues for uses and potential rental fees. Committee members include Bruce Manning, Cande Hasenoehrl, Donna Gwinn, Sally Burkhart and Matt and Annelise Zook....
Dennis Vermillion, president of Avista Utilities, will be the speaker during the Pullman Chamber of Commerce general membership luncheon at noon on Tuesday, Sept. 11, at Banyans on the Ridge in the Pavilion. Lunch will be catered by Banyans, and the cost is $18 per person, or $15 for Pullman Chamber members. Reservations should be made by Sept. 7 to Pullman Chamber of Commerce, chamber@pullmanchamber.com....
Stepping Stones, a Moscow-based non-profit organization dedicated to providing whole life services to individuals with disabilities, is accepting grant applications for 2018-2019. Stepping Stones awarded $30,000 during last year’s grant process. Grants will be awarded to individuals with developmental disabilities and not-for-profit organizations serving individuals with development disabilities who reside in Latah County and the surrounding area. The grant application deadline is Sept. 30. Applications will be evaluated on a variety of c...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL Monday: No School - Labor Day! Tuesday: Ham and cheese ripper or chicken patty, fresh veggies, fruit. Wednesday: Burrito or burger, corn, tater tots, fruit. Thursday: Hot dog or chicken patty, chili, Caesar salad, fruit. Friday: Beef dippers with rice or burger, carrots, fruit. AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL Monday: No School - Labor Day! Tuesday: Chicken nuggets, fries, carrot sticks, pears, muffin. Wednesday: Pizza, salad, applesauce. Thursday: Straw hats, corn, cucumber sticks, peaches. Friday: Turkey or tuna sandwich with lettuce and t...
8 years ago The Commoner, August 18, 1893 Robert Burgunder, youngest son of B. Burgunder, had a narrow escape from poisoning Sunday. A bottle containing a fluid which had been kept for disinfecting purposes at the time of the scarlet fever epidemic three years ago was taken from its resting place by a servant, who was about to destroy it. Robert took a taste of the liquid before he could be prevented, and a physician was called without delay. The proper antidote was administered, and there was no serious result. *** On last Thursday John K. T...
IAF Traveling Lecture Series and Fall Field Trip The Ice Age Floods pre-field trip lecture series will be stopping in five towns this September before a fall field trip embarks on Oct. 6. Check out the schedule below. “Inundation of the Palouse River Valley by the Ice Age Floods” A close look at the Channeled Scablands of the lower Cheney-Palouse Scabland tract with evidence of the megafloods that swept through this area as late as 15,000 years ago. It will also look at all the places these flood waters entered the Palouse River Valley. Pre...
