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8 years ago Colfax Commoner September 9, 1892 _______ _____was brought back from North Dakota for cattle stealing and is now “safely caged” in the county jail. Deputy G N. McLean brought him back. He was arrested because he looked like a badly wanted Texas murderer. The Texas sheriff sent to return him for justice realized he was not the man they wanted. Local authorities in Minot suspected him of some criminal activity and found a reference to Farmington, Washington in his belongings. The authorities telegraphed Marshall Stoops in Far...
AT COLFAX SCHOOL: Monday: Chicken nuggets, rice, fresh veggies, fruit. Tuesday: Mac and cheese, smokies, bread stick, peas, fruit. Wednesday: Maple bites, egg patty, potato wedges, fruit. Thursday: Straw hats, fruit, refried beans, donut. Friday: Deli sandwich, Caesar salad, fruit. AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Chickenwich with lettuce and tomato, fries, applesauce. Tuesday: Tacos with lettuce and tomato, refried beans, pears. Wednesday: BBQ chicken sandwich, broccoli with cheese, carrots, peaches. Thursday: Spaghetti, salad, garlic roll, orange...
Backyard Harvest plans fund dinners Backyard Harvest will host three gourmet farm-to-table harvest dinner fundraisers this year to build essential support for programs and services that increase access to fresh food on the Palouse and in the Lewis-Clark Valley. The Whitman County dinner will be Sept. 24 at Merry Cellars in Pullman with catering by Banyons on the Ridge. The annual dinners help low-income families and individuals gain access to fresh food. Initial sponsors for BYH's upcoming Harvest Dinners include the Moscow Food Co-op, the Pull...
A graveside service for Arthur D. Helmke, 80, Farmington, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 15, at the Garfield Cemetery with Rev. Kathy Lee Kramer officiating. A reception will follow at the Farmington Seventh-day Adventist gymnasium. Mr. Helmke died Sept. 5, 2017, at the Aspen Park Care Center in Moscow. Friends may call and pay their respects Sept. 14 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Kramer Funeral Home in Palouse. Born Jan. 29, 1937, in Hartline to Frank and Esther Hirschel Helmke, he moved with his...
Taylor Stalter, son of Doug and Jodi Burns Stalter, and Kieva Brymer, daughter of Robert and Tammy Brymer, were married May 13, 2017, at Lord Hill Farms in Snohomish. They were married on the 50th wedding anniversary of his grandparents, Greg and Lorna Burns....
Thursday, Sept. 14 Colfax, LaCrosse, Rosalia - Storytime - Fun and learning for families all school year long. Call or visit us online for details. Palouse - 4 p.m. - Ozobots - Learn how to code your own little robot. Ozobots are sponsored by Washington State Library. Friday, Sept. 15 Colfax – 10 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. – Play and Learn resumes with enjoyment for both the parent and child. Colfax – 12 to 1 p.m. – Finding I AM – Join Becky Ewing for this six week women's interactive book study and discussion. Colfax – 4:30 to 7:15 p.m. – Rising St...
Vicki Leeper of Pullman is a professional chocolatier and is part owner of Dancing Chocolate, an online chocolate company. She also teaches candy making classes at Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. Once again the Whitman County Gazette was pleased to sponsor the “Melt in your Mouth Chocolate Contest” at this year’s Palouse Empire Fair. The contest was open to both youth and adults. The number of entries was smaller than years past, but the caliber was top notch. The delicious task of judging was handl...
Nearly 900 residents of all ages completed summer reading programs through Whitman County Library. Everyone who participated received a book or small prizes. Teens and adults were entered into grand prize giveaways sponsored by local businesses and Friends of the Library. Adult winners were Becky Elfers, WSU Game-Day package; Janelle Harrison, Galaxy Tablet from WSECU; Ruth Cox, JP Pies picnic basket; Elaine Parker, magnum of Merry Cellars wine, and Virginia Heaton, JP Pies gift certificate. Teen winners were Mason McIntosh, Samsung Galaxy...
Dusty Jasmin Watson, daughter of Marc Watson and Judy Watson, was a member of the LaCrosse High School FFA team which won the Palouse Empire Fair livestock judging contest. She placed first. Other team members placings were Alynn Harder, third, Trey Fleming, sixth, Braden Miller, 10th. Lauren Stubbs, TJ Harder and Genevieve McGregor were also on the team. Visitors at the home of Kim and Cindy Pitts this past weekend included their daughter and son-in-law, Jen and Ryan Hammons of Meridian, Idaho, and Ryan’s cousins, Dave and Elizabeth Hammons o...
Ryley Griffiths and Kylie Kackman, now juniors at Colfax High School, placed third in a national FCCLA convention event in Nashville July 1-7. They qualified for the national finals with a top two finish in the state session last March. They were among 47 teams which competed in the food innovations contest at the national session. They made a presentation on a nutritional bar they had created. Altaira Bogle, CHS food and consumer science teacher, said they did a 10 minute presentation on the...
Whitman Hospital and Medical Center will conduct CarFit check-ups for drivers 65 and older Saturday, Sept. 23, 2017, at the specialty clinic parking. Reservations are required for the 20 minute sessions. CarFit provides older adults with the tools to understand and apply the safety features of their car. Trained volunteers will complete a 12-point checklist with each driver. Older drivers can also check with their local AAA club or AARP office to take a driver safety refresher course for older road users or look into occupational therapy...
Endicott Etol Lillard, who has lived in Endicott for a number of years, recently moved to Vero Beach, Fla. Her neighbor, Bob Curry, drove her rental moving truck across country to Vero Beach in six days. He flew out of Orlando last Thursday, just ahead of hurricane Irma. Etol flew to Florida where she is now residing with long-time friends. Vero Beach is on the opposite side of Florida from the hurricane's track. Sharon Huff, Gail Bilow, Sue Bafus and Anne Lowe hosted the annual Corn Party at the home of Sue Bafus Friday, Sept. 8. Forty...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Wyatt Edward Jenkins, 23, Denver, Colo., and Shawnda Delaney Eller, 23, also Denver, Sept. 7. Arthur Julian Dendy, 87, Spokane, to Suzanne Marie Abbott, 80, Spokane, Sept. 8. Earl Jeffrey Marshall, 48, Colfax, and Rachelle Monica Ledbetter, 48, Colfax, Sept. 11. REAL ESTATE SALES Ioannis and Jennifer Kareklas, Selkirk, N.Y., to Drew and Beth St. Marie, Colfax, house and land on Highway 272 east of Colfax, $265,000, Sept. 18. Wadswort Pullman Stadium LLC, Draper, Utah, to Jackson Farmland LLC, Vancouver, new Starbuck's on...
At last count firefighters were battling 82 major wildfires in 10 western states. The fires have already scorched 2,300 square miles of forests and range lands, dislocated thousands of people, and burned hundreds of homes and buildings. This has been the third worst forest fire season on record, prompting western congressional members to add billions to emergency hurricane relief legislation It isn’t over yet. The cost of fighting fires already broke this year’s U.S. Forest Service budget. It is part of a disturbing trend in which com...
Bewildered I was very much bewildered when, on Sept. 6, I attended the Regular Meeting of the Board of Commissioners of the Public Hospital District No. A-1 of Whitman County (Pullman Regional Hospital) regarding gender reassignment surgery. It seemed obvious that the board went through the necessary process to appear as if they had debated and studied this issue, but really they only went through the process because it was required. It appeared to me that collectively they already had their decision made before they started the process. The...
Even in our divided politics, it should be a matter of consensus that the president of the United States can't write laws on his own. That's what President Barack Obama did twice when he unilaterally granted amnesties to swaths of the illegal immigrant population. The courts blocked one of these measures, known as DAPA, and President Donald Trump has now begun the process of ending the other, DACA, on a delayed, rolling basis. In a country with a firmer commitment to its Constitution and the rule of law, there'd be robust argument over how to...
Hurricane Harvey is such a tragic natural disaster that it's been impervious to the vigorous attempts to steal the spotlight by that unnatural disaster Donald Trump. His attempts at provocation -- like the Joe Arpaio pardon and his usual Twitter outrages -- were not enough to deflect our focus. The nation was concentrating instead on the thousands upon thousands of people suffering in the Gulf region, particularly Houston, as the historic deluge drove them from the safety of homes that had been turned into death traps by the rising water. But...
It is not exactly pope-speak but Pope Francis called people who deny climate change “stupid,” using a quote from the Bible. It is a “moral responsibility,” he said, to do everything possible to alleviate the changes. He is right. The climate is changing. It has been changing for years. Those who deny the fact seem most intent on denying the causes and the effects. As one said, the climate has been changing since the end of the last Ice Age, there is nothing to do about it. And, so it has, but there are many things humans can do to lessen...
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. COLFAX SCHOOL COUNT AT 581 Total enrollment for Colfax schools stands at 581 students, with 294 in the first six grades at Jennings Elementary and 92 in the seventh and eighth grades. Enrollment for the high school grades is 195.6 full-time equivalent students, Reece Jenkin, district business manager, reported to the school board Monday night....
Mike Koenig, Colfax School District groundskeeper, prepares a pole Sept. 5 for the new football scoreboard at the school’s athletic complex....
Gavin Merritt of Tekoa/Rosalia placed fourth in the NE league run Tuesday at Northwest Christian with a 21:55.5 time behind the big win posted by Tyler Shea of Northwest Christian at 19:19.8. The Timberwolves’ Jaedyn Nortwood placed 12th at 22:42 and Issac Newton placed 17th at 23:409.1. Ryley Griffiths led the Colfax entries with 11th place at 22:31.23. Other finishers for Colfax were Chase Baerlocher, 29th at 25:06.15, and Carson Cloaninger, 46th at 26:154.5. Garfield/Palouse runners had the lone local team finish with 194 for ninth behind N...
County 1B football teams will be back in action Friday, all at home, after last week’s cancellations due to smoke in the air from wildfires. Garfield/Palouse (1-0) is set to host Lakeside (Plummer) Friday at 7 p.m. in a non-league game. Colton (0-1) will meet Wallace at 7 p.m. and St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse (0-1) is at home in St. John against Selkirk in more non-league action. Last week, the Eagles were set to go north to Curlew for a Saturday afternoon game which was cancelled due to worse a...
Kylie Kackman (11) and Piper Cai go up to block a kill shot by Gonzaga's Charlotte Horn in the Thursday match at Colfax. Colfax volleyball players took out Northwest Christian in three straight game Tuesday night at Colbert to start NE league play. The Bulldogs and NWC battled in a tight first game, but Colfax put the lid on in the last two. Match score was 25-23 25-20 and 25-19. Coach Sue Doering noted she changed the lineup before the Colbert trip, and the Bulldogs had to get into a new grove...
Colfax Bulldogs will host the Wilbur/Creston Wildcats Friday in the third round of football league play. Both teams will take to the Schmuck Park turf after sustaining loses in the second NE league round Monday in the air quality edition of league play. Colfax sustained a 0-12 loss to Asotin on the Panthers’ turf, and Wilbur Creston was topped by the LRSW Broncos 16-6. Colfax will go into action with a 1-1 record after tagging a 9-0 shutout over Reardan on the home turf here two weeks ago.Those nine points now stand as the season total for t...
Oakesdale Nighthawks extended their string on the new V-net season to 3-0 Tuesday night by taking out Liberty in a four-game battle 25-15 25-16 16-25 and 26-24. Madison Shrope put up 26 assists and two block and hit four aces off the line. Brookly Henley booked 15 kills against the Lancers, and Logan Reed had 16 digs. Maisie Burnham hit 19 kills and booked nine blocks to lead Libery. Last Wednesday, Oakesdale dropped Pomeroy 25-10, 25-21, and 25-11 with Reed hitting 15 kills and booking seven digs. Shrope had 26 assists and five aces against...
