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NOTICE OF HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Port of Whitman County, has filed with the Board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, Washington, an application for a franchise for a period of fifty (50) years to construct, operate and maintain a Telecommunications system over, under, across and along County Roads in Whitman County, Washington. NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that the board of County Commissioners of Whitman County, Washington, has fixed the hearing on said application for the franchise for the 19th day of September, 2011 at th...
8 years ago September 10, 1886 Completion of the railroad to Farmington was made the occasion for a social hop at that place Friday evening last. Colfax buyers are paying 45 cents per bushel for sacked wheat. Talbott & Bragg have decided to remove their Lincoln flouring mill to Elberton, the new town at the mouth of Silver creek. The removal will take place next season, the mill being run to its fullest capacity during the coming winter. Osbon the artist is taking a number of views of the surrounding country and a number of fine views of...
Roger Wallace Haner Private family services will be conducted for Roger Wallace Haner, 75, Air Force retiree who has resided at St. John for the past 10 years. Mr. Haner died Tuesday, Aug. 30, 2011, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Born Feb. 16, 1936, in Anacortes, to Wallace Roland and Stella Kimber Haner, he graduated from Anacortes High School in 1954 and entered the U.S. Air Force in 1954. He was stationed in San Antonio, Texas, where he was a missiles technician and also worked on drones and bombers. Roger’s Air Force career span... Full story
COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Week of Sept. 12 Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday —Traditional Italian Lasagna, green beans, tossed salad, bread, fruit and brownie, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Traditional Italian Lasagna, green beans, tossed salad, bread, fruit and brownie dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Federated Church: Wednesday —Traditional Italian Lasagna, green beans, tossed salad, bread, fruit and brownie, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday — Tra... Full story
NOW HERE’S A TIP • Plant deciduous trees (trees that lose their leaves in the fall) strategically in order to reduce your heating and cooling costs. Their leaves emerge in the spring to block summer’s heating rays, but when winter comes, they fall off to let the sun in, warming things up a bit. • Keep nail-polish bottles easy to open by rubbing a little bit of petroleum jelly inside the cap of the bottle. • Use an empty paper towel roll to store plastic grocery bags. Just stuff to capacity. These “bag sticks” are easy to store in a drawer or e...
Sesitshaya to play at Tekoa’s Empire Sesitshaya Marimba Band from Moscow, which plays traditional and contemporary songs from Sub-Saharan Africa on Kwanongoma marimbas, will perform next Saturday, Sept. 17, at Tekoa’s Empire Theater beginning at 7 p.m. Made in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, the marimbas produce the full earthy tones which characterize the music. They are the only Kwanongomas known to be in this region. The band is made up of eight women from Moscow who pursue professional careers when not playing together in the band. They were described...
BOOKMARK Join the fun and visit Whitman County Library at the Palouse Empire Fair Sept. 8-11 as Friends of WCL present a Love-a-Fair with History. The booth will contain images from the library’s Rural Heritage collection, the St. John Community’s Journeys Stories exhibit and the Colfax Library’s Forever Free, Abe Lincoln exhibit. Kids will be invited to spin the ever-popular free prize wheel. Storytime resumes Thursday, Sept. 8 with Baby time programs at 10:10 a.m., Toddler Time at 10:30 a.m. and Preschool Time at 11 a.m. Join Sheri and Nicho...
Rebecca was born Aug. 24, 2011, at seven pounds, 11 ounces, to Derek and Aubrey of Moscow. Paternal grandparents are Mark and Judy of Potlatch. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Susan of Boise. The baby joins sister Sarah and brother Weston. McCarty, Nikayla MP, was born Aug. 24, 2011, at six pounds, nine ounces to Nicole Petersen and Princeton McCarty of Pullman. Maternal grandparent is Angela Petersen of Pullman. This is the couple’s first child. Caessens, Keegan Charles, was born Aug. 25, 2011, at seven pounds, 13 ounces, to Chuck and Mire... Full story
LACROSSE NEWS Nine LaCrosse Community Pride board members met Friday, Sept. 2, at the Teapot Cafe in LaCrosse. The agenda involved reviewing city codes and approving future projects. The stained glass windows have been ordered to replace the original decorative windows. The store building is being restored with historical features preserved. New infrastructure has also been installed. Within the next few weeks a projected opening date will be announced. More than 60 tiles have been purchased and can be viewed and purchased at Jasper Trucking...
Dusty Braaten Nilsen, five and a half month old son of Ryan and Kjirsti Erickson Nilsen, of Torrington, Conn., and grandson of Norm and Gloria Erickson died last Saturday. He was born with one underdeveloped kidney and the heart of a fighter. Services are scheduled for this Saturday. He is also survived by a brother Owan, and sisters Clara, Elsie and Annie. Blake and Carmen Heaton spent Blake’s birthday Monday in Spokane shopping for their grandson. Later they had a celebratory dinner with Justin, Katy, Heather Marie, Jamie, Valente, J...
Rosalia News With the slow start to a good growing season, Rosalia Garden Club voted to select only one “Garden of the Month” for 2011, so the garden selected this year is the “Garden of the Season.” Four nominations were received for outstanding seasonal gardens. Jane Carrothers and family members received the winning honor August 31. The selection team chose this outstanding garden because of the meritorious appearance. Not only was it colorful and showed some pre-planning in the selecti... Full story
My Favorite Recipes Meet Jody Sharp, Oakesdale People in a relationship often teach each other new things. Jody Sharp’s husband, Ron, taught her to hunt, and she paid him back by teaching him to scuba dive. Jody taught many people to scuba dive in her more than 20 years as a scuba instructor with Ron being one of the more unruly students. Ron and Jody met while she was working at the dean’s office in the college of education at the University of Idaho. Originally from Ohio, Jody lived for 20...
The Palouse Empire Fair opens its four-day run today, Thursday. What food are you most looking forward to eating? Ken Ditzler, Spokane “Corn Dogs. Or those New York sausages if they have them. Really, any good barbecue when I can get it.” Dalton Doramus, Colfax “Ice Cream. Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, I’ll take whatever they have.” Noah Groom, Colfax “Cotton Candy.” Blue or pink? “Blue.” Can you taste a difference? “Yeah. Blue tastes way better.” Shawn Staves, Colfax “Elephant Ears.” Do you worry about them going to your hips? “They have....
Neighborly Bee A harvest bee for Jerry Smart and family of Oakesdale Wednesday, Aug. 31, cut approximately 550 acres of wheat off two fields located along the Hume Road south of Oakesdale. The bee included at least 25 combines for the two sites. Cutting at one field concluded about 1 p.m. and cutting at the northern field continued until about 5 p.m. The bee drew harvest crews from all over the area with a contingent of Tekoa harvesters rolling south in an early morning convoy. The Tekoa group was assigned to the northern field for the...
TRIVIA TEST 1. GEOGRAPHY: Most of the Sierra Madre mountains are located in what country? 2. MATH: What term is used to describe an irrational number such as pi? 3. HISTORY: Before the start of the Civil War, in what city was the Confederacy’s provisional constitution adopted? 4. ART: What was artist Picasso’s first name? 5. TELEVISION: What was the Bionic Woman’s name? 6. OPERA: Who composed the opera “The Magic Flute”? 7. SCIENCE: What is the most abundant element in the known universe? 8. LANGUAGE: What does the acronym GOP stand for? 9. L...
• It was Hungarian psychiatrist Thomas Stephen Szasz who made the following sage observation: “If you talk to God, you are praying. If God talks to you, you have schizophrenia.” • The world’s most popular fruit is the banana. In the United States, people consume more bananas than apples and oranges put together. • Thomas Jefferson was an inventor as well as a statesman, but he refused to take out patents on any of his ideas. He believed that inventions should benefit all of humanity, not just himself. • According to those who study such th... Full story
State transportation officials have endorsed the Port of Whitman County’s $3 million federal rail grant proposal, allowing the application to move forward. Joe Poire, executive director for the port, told commissioners at their regular meeting last Thursday, Sept. 1, that he had received word from state rail director John Sibold that the agency would support the port’s project. The port is applying for $3 million in federal funding to rehabilitate state-owned railroads in Whitman County. The port’s grant request is from the federal Trans... Full story
Next deadline for nominating a barn for the state’s Heritage Barn Register is Friday, Oct. 7, with the deadline to submit an application for barn rehabilitation grants set for Oct. 17. A program of the Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, this initiative established the Heritage Barn Register, a statewide list of historically significant barns. Owners of barns more than 50 years old that retain a significant degree of historic integrity can nominate their barn to be designated as a Heritage Barn. A...
Told you so The Gazette’s featured article last week clearly shows what I’ve known all along — our County has partnered with a global corporation in opposition to local citizens and specifically Mr. Whitten’s current Appeals of the wind farm development. Why is our County trying so hard to stop a local resident from having his day in court? Could his arguments be legitimate and they don’t want them to see the light of day? If wind energy were so beneficial and cost effective, why would it have to be mandated (forced) upon utility companies and... Full story
Marshall Doak of Salem, Ore., has been hired as executive director of the Southeast Washington Economic Development Association, or SEWEDA, and the Palouse Regional Transportation Planning Organization. Doak will take over the agency’s helm at its board meeting Tuesday, Sept. 13. He succeeds Duane Wollmuth of Walla Walla, who resigned from the post in May. Doak previously served as executive director of a community economic development organization in Sunnyside, and for both the Economic Development Council and Small Business Development C... Full story
These reports are from the previous three 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. THREE FILE FOR ALBION MAYOR Albion Mayor Randall Crowner filed for re-election during the special three-day election filing period which closed Aug. 31. Donald Hammond, 68, and Jack R. Hopkins, 60, also filed as challengers. The filing was open for three days for the 63 elected positions around the county with expiring terms which failed to...
Obama administration turns to the private sector President Obama and the newly appointed Congressional federal debt reduction committee will need to look under every rock to find ways to save money and do things differently. Now, they’re getting some help from the private sector. In June, the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services awarded a four-year $77 million contract to Northrop Grumman to develop a detection system capable of stopping fraud before it happens. Based on systems used in the private sector to detect credit card f...
Getting enough sleep? There’s been another one of those sleep studies warning us once again that millions of Americans are sleep-deprived, thus making us vulnerable to heart attacks and strokes, dumbed down students and drowsy drivers. The latest is according to a study presented at the American Academy of Sleep’s annual meeting in June in Minneapolis and reported in USA Today last month. It shouldn’t surprise you to be told that men tend to be night owls, wanting to go to bed later and get up later, while women are more often morning peopl...
Sunday will mark the tenth anniversary of the terror attacks on America. On September 11, 2001, four commercial jetliners were commandeered by Muslim extremists. Two of the planes were flown into the Twin Towers in New York City. The towers collapsed as people were trying to escape them. Thousands died. A third plane was rammed into the Pentagon in Washington, D.C., where hundreds were killed. The fourth crashed in Pennsylvania after passengers tried to retake the plane. All aboard perished. The nation was stunned and horrified. For those near... Full story
The Best Dog Movie Ever The publication of my new novel, “Emory’s Gift,” gets me a meeting with a Hollywood producer who professes to be a “big fan” of my work, though in his email he confesses he hasn’t yet read any of it. He’s a man in his 30s with black hair so perfectly arranged on his head it would make a Ken doll jealous. His office is adorned with movie posters and photographs of him with famous actors and other people. I ask him what it was like to meet the governor of California, and he responds, “Well, but he’s back to being an actor...
