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A record low enrollment for first graders has Colfax school staff and parents struggling with a class size that could be too large for one teacher but too small for two. Staff are seeking options to downsize the existing class of 28 or change teaching duties. The total first grade class in Colfax was predicted by the administration to be 24 students this year; 28 ended up enrolling. The extra four students stretch the teacher-to-student ratio and parents at a school board meeting Monday protested the size, saying it strains learning and...
Jolee Aeschliman of Colfax, left, was awarded a saddle during Friday’s rodeo for her performance in the 6th annual Tom Byrne Memorial riding clinic earlier this year. Jolee, daughter of Scott and Karen Aeschliman, is Byrne’s granddaughter. The award is given to the clinic participant that best demonstrates horsemanship. Presenting the saddle on behalf of sponsor Les Schwab were Cliff Miller of Colfax and Tyler Burnett of Airway Heights....
Del Gregory of Oakesdale was among 45 veterans who returned to Spokane from an honor flight to Washington, D.C., Sunday night. The trip was organized and supported by the Inland Northwest Honor Flight group, one of 90 such organizations now working to provide World War II veterans with a trip to view the World War II memorial and other honor sites in the capital. Gregory, a 1941 Oakesdale High grad, enlisted in the U.S. Army Air Corps in 1942 at the age of 19 and trained as a radioman and navigator. For most of the war, he served as a crew...
Ping pong balls will drop from the sky, rubber ducks will be poured into the river and show cars will glitter in the city park for this year’s Palouse Days celebration Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18. The kick-off party will be Friday 8 p.m. at the Palouse Tavern. The main parade Saturday will start at 10 a.m. Grand marshals for the festival this year are Loren and Mary Estes. They have designed and planted three rose gardens around the town and Mary selected the trees planted at the new Palouse RV park last year. The 28th annual car s... Full story
Tekoa High School is one of four Washington state schools to win the national 2010 Blue Ribbon school award. Last Wednesday, Sept. 8, 304 schools nationwide were named by the U.S. Secretary of Education for the award, which goes to schools with high student performance or schools with students with disadvantaged backgrounds that show marked test score improvement. Schools will be honored at a ceremony Nov. 15 and 16 in Washington D.C. No money is given for the award. “We’re constantly changing. We don’t stay with one thing. We try to impro...
Bareback – 1. Justin King, 75 $380.93 2. Orlun McGuffin, 69, Tie Down Roping - 1. Shane Erickson 9.7, 2. Troy Erb 9.89, 3. Aaron Marts 10.08, 4. Joey Bergevin10.15, 5. Steve Pozzobon 10.16, 6. Justin Beierle 10.65. Breakaway - 1. Margaret Reeves 3.16, 2. Macy Fuller 3.65, 3. Jody Goodrich 4.02, 4. Jennifer Casey 4.09, 5. Jami Yochum, 4.14 6. Janet ONeil. 41. Saddle Bronc - 1. Danny Alires 76, 2. Kayle Gray 75, 3. Joe Meling 73, 4. Jacob Stacy 72, 5. Bo Segerman 68. Steer Wrestling - 1. Shawn Brown 3.96, 2. Shawn Wilkenson 6.06, 3. Justin L... Full story
Colfax Bulldogs Friday at Walla Walla posted a first-half lead, saw most of it vanish in the third quarter and then booked 20 points in the last quarter to win their opener over DeSales. Final score was 38-19. The win put the Bulldogs in gear for their home opener this Friday when Davenport arrives to start the league season. The Gorillas will make the trip to Colfax after posting a 21-14 win over Lake Roosevelt in their first game Friday. Colfax Coach Mike Morgan said he really wasn’t sure what was going to happen when the 2010 Bulldogs r...
Judging chocolate isn’t just about sampling a variety of yummy desserts and picking a favorite. It’s about carefully dissecting the flavor, crumb texture and consistency of each piece. It’s about scrutinizing the appeal, both to the eye and the tongue. Then all these factors have to be given a number on a scale which will eventually determine the best. While judging chocolate can be meticulous work, that was the task myself and two other judges set out to do for the Melt in Your Mouth Chocolate Contest at the Palouse Empire Fair this year....
Standing in the dusty, shadowed driveway of the crib elevator for Palouse Grain Growers, it is easy to feel the years in the place. With a worn wooden floor and the thick film of grain dust that blankets everything in sight, this elevator bares the visible stamp of time as Palouse Grain Growers co-op celebrates its 80th anniversary. Assistant manager Rick Wekenman rides up in the manlift. The manlift can shoot 70 feet up to the rafters of the Palouse Grain Grower’s crib elevator. A celebration will be Saturday, Sept. 18, of Palouse Days to h...
Do you think all government records and meetings should be open to the public? Abby Muir, Colfax “I don’t think people should have access to all of it. I think they need access to some of it.” Tony (no last name given), Colfax “Yeah.” Why? “Because the public should know.” Arlene Hatley, Colfax “We’re part of the government, so why not? We pay taxes.” John Cox, Washtucna “I guess I feel everyone has the right to know what the government is doing. They sure want to know what we’re doing.” Rodney Nelson, Colfax “Yeah.” Why? “I feel like... Full story
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. Lights out for Colfax A Colfax police survey Monday night identified 12 streetlights which are out. Five of the malfunctioning lights are located on Main Street. Colfax also lost another light last week when a truck driver snapped off one of the downtown vintage-style streetlights near the intersection of Main and Upton. The city will need to...
Selective reading The people criticizing Mr. Whitten’s attempt to recall two county commissioners must be very selective in their reading of the newspaper. The newspaper publisher, as well as the county prosecutor, both explained how the Open Public Meeting Law was violated. What is it about public officials breaking a law that some of you do not understand? Government should operate in the open. Violators of this fundamental principle should be held accountable, no matter the cost. Rick Kiesz, Thornton Backs Romeyn I was shocked to read a r...
Back in the 1980s, my grandparents, Dick and Emily, moved to Florida because they wanted a better climate to argue in. They had one of those relationships where they fought so much they couldn’t even agree on what they disagreed on. Their little home in Florida was a few dozen yards from a boggy pond that kept trying to evolve into a swamp. Dick liked to go down to the water’s edge and feed marshmallows to the small alligator who lived there, probably hoping that one day it would grow large enough that he could feed it Emily. Emily would stand...
President Obama says two of his biggest priorities are jobs and renewable energy. Perhaps he should tell his regulators to help, not hinder, energy projects because some of their most recent actions are killing them and their accompanying jobs. In the process, they re making us even more reliant on foreign oil. Historically, America s energy sector has been one of the strongest drivers of our economy. The oil and gas industry alone employs more than nine million people. But that industry is under siege. In the wake of the Gulf oil spill, the...
WELL, LOOK who got a write-up in the Wall Street Journal. Our own Dino Rossi, in a tantalizing top of the page editorial entitled “A Washington State Smear Campaign.” “Desperate political environments tend to inspire desperate political tactics,” writes Kimberley A. Strassel. “In Washington State, liberal activists are desperate.” Dino attracted the Journal’s attention in his race to unseat U.S. Sen. Patty Murray because if this turns out to be a “wave election” on Nov. 2, meaning a loss of over 20 seats by the Democrat majority, our man...
It was a long time ago when Cuba, basically a corporate holding of the United States since the Spanish American War, was swept with revolutionary fervor. The old government was overthrown. Cuba’s new leader, Fidel Castro, tried to find allies and support. Spurned by most countries, he sought support from the Communist Block. This was in the 1950’s, and the Cold War was raging. The United States and Cuba became adversaries and enemies. During John F. Kennedy’s presidency, America covertly supported an invasion of the country, and the Sovie...
Number of Colfax High baseball grads expected for Saturday’s alumni games has grown to 50, according to Coach Mike Parrish. The grads are coming from all around the country to play under the McDonald Field lights. They will play a nine-inning game beginning at 4 p.m. and then take a break for a barbecue dinner. They will then conclude with a seven inning night game beginning at 7 p.m. Admission for fans will be by donation, and the BBQ will be available for purchase by spectators. Reunion participants will be served the dinner as part of the p... Full story
Colfax Crosse Country Coach Jamie Kinley Saturday entered four runners in the three-miler at Silverwood. Most of the other team members were involved in the fair. Morgan Willson placed second with an 18:59 in the meet which brought runners from 136 schools to run two laps on the course which starts out by the Silverwood airfield. A runner from Glacier Peak clocked 18:36 for the win. Jackson Elfers placed 158th among the 189 runners in the boys race. Seventh graders Tim Cornelius and Mitch Varney were among 275 runners off the line in the...
The Eagle cross country runners and teams from three other schools raced Tuesday on the 3.1 mile course at St. John, The route included St. John golf course and terraces of neighboring Webb’s Slough. Pomeroy, Dayton and Liberty Christian runners visited. SJE Coach Andrea Miller graduated most of the runners off the SJE boys team which won a string of three SE titles and placed second last year. She also has three freshmen on the girls team this year. Tuesday, Natalie April of LC clocked 23.40 for the girls win. SJE runners finished behind her i...
Colfax Bulldogs, who sustained a frustrating five-game loss to the Lakeside Tuesday night, will head for Okanogan this weekend in an effort to turn their volleyball record around. The Bulldogs are booked to play Omak at 10, Connell at noon and Brewster and 2 in pool play. Okanogan, Davenport, Zillah and Ephrata are in the tourney’s other pool action. Colfax will attempt to shake off a 0-3 match play record posted to date in non-league action against larger teams. Tuesday night’s five-game loss to the Eagles was frustrating because the Bul...
Tekoa/Oakedale and Pomeroy booked a pair of league wins in the first two rounds of SE volleyball play. Pomeroy was slated to host the LW Tigercats Wednesday night, and the `hawks will host 1-1 Rosalia in tonight’s round, TEKOA/OAKESDALE Tuesday moved to 2-0 in the league run with a three-game win over Garfield/Palouse, 25-12 24-15 and 25-21. Kaela Dewan hit seven aces and 10 kills against the Vikings. Alexa Lindgren had five digs and Eden Anderson put up two blocks. Casey Adair hit three aces for the Vikings, and Holly Leendertsen and Terrie T...
Offensive miscues wiped out a strong defensive effort in Tekoa/Oakesdale/Rosalia’s 7-6 road loss to rival Liberty Friday night at the Lancers’ field. The Nighthawk defense blanked the Lancer’s offensive attack, with Liberty’s only points coming on an interception return with 7.5 seconds remaining in the first half. “That one was on the coach,” said TOR Coach Ken Lindgren on his decision not to stall out the clock at the end of the half. “I should have had them take a knee or run a dive into the line.” TOR had the ball deep in their own terri...
Whitman county teams in the SE Eights league will face a variety of foes Friday in the last week of non-league action. COLTON and Joseph, Ore., have booked another Friday night game in the Kibbie Dome at the University of Idaho. The Oregon club will arrive with a 1-1 record after losing 74-53 derby to Ione, Ore., last week. They posted a win over the Echo club which will be at Washtucna this week. Coach Clark Vining notes for the first time this year the Wildcats won’t be going up against a state championship team from last year. They bowed t... Full story
Two Whitman County schools this year will give their students the ability to act as a sentencing panel for students who violate school rules. Robert Russell, a part-time teacher and athletics and activities director at Garfield Middle School, has set up Youth Courts in Colfax and Rosalia high schools. Russell said the idea of the court is to give students a clearer picture of the inner workings of the American justice system. “One of the things I tell my eighth graders is the closest to the constitution we ever get is serving on a jury,” sai...
Farmers have until Sept. 30 to submit applications for assistance for 2008 crop year losses under the Farm Service Agency’s 2008 Supplemental Revenue Assistance program. The program provides crop disaster payments to eligible farmers that incurred production or crop quality losses. Assistance equals an amount of 60 percent of the difference between the SURE farm guarantee and total farm revenue. Eligible producers must have suffered at least 10 percent production loss on a cash crop. Farmers must also have obtained crop insurance under risk m...
