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NOTICE REQUESTING INTERESTED PARTIES TO JOIN THE WHITMAN COUNTY VOLUNTARY STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM (VSP) WATERSHED GROUP The County is asking for interested parties to form a watershed group that will be responsible for developing and implementing a work plan to protect critical areas while maintaining the viability of agriculture in the watershed under the Voluntary Stewardship Program statute. We are looking for volunteers from a broad representation of key watershed stakeholders such as agricultural and environmental groups and interested...
The once-regal Hugh McDonald house looks over the Sunset Road where it has stood for years. The house has become a familiar stop for photographers and photography groups from all around the country. Cars and trucks with license plates from many states make a stop. The house was last occupied over 60 years ago....
Adjusted Flu Vaccine Options Available to Seniors This Year Dear Savvy Senior, What can you tell me about this year’s flu shot? Last year’s vaccine was ineffective at preventing the flu, especially among seniors. What options are available to me this year? Seeking Protection Dear Seeking, You’re right. Last season’s flu shot was not very effective at preventing the flu. In fact, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), people who got the shot were just 19 percent less likely to visit the doctor for flu than people who...
8 years ago The Commoner Sept. 5, 1890 With this, the first issue of the St. John Header, we come before the public filling a new sphere. Believing that a newspaper is as essential to the growth and prosperity of a city and its surrounding country, as any other line of business, and failing in our attempts to get an experienced man to establish one here, we have taken it upon our shoulders to furnish our citizens with the long looked for and much talked of newspaper. While we are wielding the pen, we will do all we can to promote the...
Thursday, Sept. 10 Library booth at the Palouse Empire Fair - 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. - Stirrup some Local History and enjoy the spinning prize wheel! Friday, Sept. 11 Endicott, Malden & St. John - Preschool Storytime - Check the online calendar or call the branch for times and more information about these fun and educational programs for age 0 to 6. Colfax - 4 to 6:30 p.m. - Rising Stars Dance- Children's dance classes. For more information call Keri at 509-432-6961 Saturday, Sept. 12 Rosalia - 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - Grandparents Day - Make a gift...
Regional Theatre of the Palouse will present Venus in Fur Sept. 23-26 at 8:30 p.m. each night. The play contains adult language and themes and is not suitable for children. Also, RTOP is now selling tickets for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which will be Nov. 5-16. The theater box office is open from noon to 5 p.m....
Petra Klander is the new manager of the Uniontown Branch of Whitman County Library. Petra has been training with Catalina Flores. Uniontown library hours are Wednesdays 2 to 6 p.m. and Fridays 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. After-school programs resume Wednesday, Sept. 16, at 3:30 p.m. for kids grades K-6. Storytime starts Sept. 25 at 10:30 a.m. Children six years old and younger are invited....
Robyn Johnson was born in Moscow, Idaho, while her parents, Jim and Lynne Bruya, lived in Elk River where Jim had his first teaching job. They moved to Moscow, and siblings Tim and Shannon were also born there. The Bruya’s moved to New Plymouth, Idaho, and then on to Inchelium, and Kettle Falls, where Robyn attended kindergarten through eighth grade. Her dad was a teacher and coach. Ted and Tom were added to the family for a total of five. Robyn came to Colfax High School as a freshman. Her h...
Ag Expo again seeks photo entries Spokane Ag Expo will again feature a photography contest for the 39-year edition of the event which has been slated for Feb. 4 at the Spokane Convention Center. Photographers of all ages are encouraged to enter the contest by submitting photos depicting "Agriculture in the Inland Northwest." Deadline for entry will be Nov. 2. Entries should be mailed to the Ag Expo office, 801 N. Riverside, Ste. 100, Spokane, 99201. All photos entered will be displayed at the show, according to Myrna O'Leary, show director....
AT OAKESDALE SCHOOL: Monday: BBQ teriyaki chicken, WG roll, brown rice, assorted veggies, oranges/pears, milk. Tuesday: Meatball sub, green salad, baked beans, assorted veggies, bananas/peaches, assorted pudding, milk. Wednesday: Mexi-bake, WG roll, assorted veggies, strawberries/ applesauce, milk. Thursday: Popcorn chicken, WG roll, green salad, whipped potatoes, orange/fruit mix, milk. Friday: Pronto pups, French fries, assorted veggies, apples/peaches, milk. SENIOR MENUS: Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Pulled pork s...
Dusty Tarri Steiger spent a week on vacation in North Dakota with her sister Traci and brother-in-law Darren from the Seattle area. They went through Yellowstone National Park and visited Mt. Rushmore. The purpose of the trip was to bury their father’s ashes alongside their mother’s at the little family cemetery in Overly, N. D., where their father was raised. His brother, their uncle, who retired from farming, still lives in Overly. The burial took place Sept. 2 which would have been their parents’ 59th wedding anniversary. Dick and Helen...
Engines 5012 and 3920 await their next assignment as they sit in the sun on the tracks at Thornton Friday afternoon. Thornton is the end of the line for the top segment of the line which starts at Hooper and branches off for St. John, Sunset, and Thornton at Winona. Watco is the operater on the line which is part of the state system....
Five new wood deck planks will be installed on Kerns Bridge, above, before Cottonwood Road and the bridge are vacated. Below, landowner Mike McCann confers with Public Works Director Mark Storey as the county commissioners look on Tuesday. After a week waiting on more information, Whitman County commissioners voted Tuesday to vacate a section of Cottonwood Road/Kerns Bridge near Thornton. The subject first came before commissioners a week earlier in a public hearing in which two landowners conte...
On September 4, the State Supreme Court derailed Washington’s nascent charter school movement when it ruled that charter school Initiative 1240 is unconstitutional. Approved by voters in 2012, I-1240 allowed up to 40 charter schools at a rate of eight per year. The initiative specified that low-income, at-risk students be given priority and charter schools were required to meet the same rigorous certification, performance and teacher accreditation standards as traditional schools. Nevertheless, the state teachers’ union sued to overturn the ini...
Pullman firefighters Sept. 2 responded to a report of smoke pouring out of the Elmhurst Apartments in the 400 block of Oak Street on College Hill. When crews arrived at the building, they found about a dozen residents had evacuated. Smoke was coming out of two windows in apartment E. They discovered the source of the smoke was an oven in the apartment. The investigation determined a resident of the apartment, who was not present when the fire crew arrived, had left after he had started baking potatoes. The fire crew ventilated the three story...
Farmington’s city council voted to repeal its fireworks ban at their Aug. 17 council meeting. The ban, which had been in place for 75 years, was not enforced. “In the state of Washington, there are already laws governing fireworks,” said mayor Dave Baker. The matter came up on the Fourth of July this year because of the dry conditions, which led to residents gathering downtown at Third Street by the fire station to light fireworks. “Because of the weather we had, we reminded everyone about the ordinance,” said Baker. “Right there was a perfe...
Pet peeve answer Please allow this letter to answer the question submitted within the Pet Peeve section of the Sept. 3, 2015, edition of the Whitman County Gazette. Specifically, the question stated, “How many of the ‘non-elected’ general population were even aware of the opportunity to possibly participate in a lucrative Moscow/Pullman airport wetlands offset?” For the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport (PMRA) Runway Re-alignment Project, the National Environmental Policy Act Environmental Assessment (EA) Process was initiated in Septemb...
Anyone hoping for a winter filled with lots of snow to offset some of the effects of the current drought situation might be in for some disappointment. The 2016 Old Farmer’s Almanac has been released with the winter weather forecast. While a mild and dry winter might be in store for eastern Washington, that does not mean it will not be cold. It will still be a good time to lace up the old boots, bring out the winter coats and gloves, make some hot chocolate and sit by the fire. The Almanac also predicts cold temperatures throughout much of t...
The rise of Donald Trump is, in part, a function of a vacuum. He is thriving in a Republican field that is large, talented and, so far, underwhelming. To paraphrase Bruce Springsteen, there's 17 candidates and nothing on. Except Donald Trump. Now, this has much to do with the media, and with Trump's unique qualities as a showman. He has the advantage of not caring about anything, apparently -- the facts, his reputation or, ultimately, winning the presidency. In consequence, he is a free man. Yet no speech, no policy proposal, no argument,...
To show you how clueless I am: I thought the term "anchor babies" was a harmless way of referring to the very young kids of TV news readers. Now I discover that it's a pejorative way to describe infants born to immigrant parents in the United States who automatically gain U.S. citizenship, a birthright guaranteed by the Constitution's 14th Amendment. There are some really good, fairly obvious reasons for birthright, having to do with slaves and fairness, but that hasn't dissuaded Donald Trump from pandering to the GOP hater base by turning it...
The image is disturbing. It is of a young boy, a mere toddler, face down at water’s edge. He is dead and alone. He and others in his family had drowned trying to escape the violence in Syria. This tragic little figure was just one of thousands who have died fleeing the Middle East. To escape the wars and violence, they face the dangers of a sea crossing, unscrupulous profiteers and even violence among the refugees themselves. Some of the refugees are seeking a new life in Europe. Others just hope for temporary sanctuary from the confused f...
A semi truck was flipped when a Chevrolet pickup over-corrected and struck the back wheels of the semi. See story below. 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. RAIN TOTALS .53 AT NRCS Precipitation reading at the NRCS station in Colfax Tuesday morning totaled .53 of an inch for the past three days. Rain began falling Friday night and...
A free boater education class will be conducted by the sheriff’s office next Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 16-17, from 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. at the Public Service Building in Colfax. The class provides certification for a boater education card which is mandatory for any Washington resident born after Dec. 31, 1954. Attendance both nights is required. Those who complete the class can obtain the boater card by sending $10 and their class certificate to Washington State Parks, according to Deputy John Guidice....
The annual Palouse Days celebration Sept. 19 in Palouse will feature three sporting events: a 5K and 10K fun run/walk, the second annual Human Foosball tournament, a cornhole tournament and the Heidi Keen Barley Bar Relay. The fun run will also include a 1K for kids. Registration for each run/walk will be from 7 a.m. to 7:45 a.m. at Bagott Motors. If participants would like to pre-register, call Mark Sawyer at (509) 939-2143. The event is sponsored by Young Life. Human Foosball will pit six-person teams against each other in the wood...
Tekoa-Rosalia volleyball team posted a three-game win over Asotin in their season opener in the Rosalia gym. The Timerwolves, who have just one returning senior, took the non-league match 25-22, 25-22 and 26-24. Coach Brian Reid noted the third game went to extra points after the TR team posted a 22-11 lead and the Panthers came charging back. Hannah Beach and Gensen Merritt each had six kills for Tekoa/Rosalia. Kyley Jenneskens put up 10 assists. Naomi Meredith, one of two freshman starters, ran seven serves with two aces to open the match. Th...
