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The Southeast Washington Economic Development Association announced the appointment of Robin Ohlgren to the position of Whitman County managing director beginning Oct. 14. Ohlgren takes the position vacated when SEWEDA in July “let go” Jessika Satori who had been with the agency since June 1. Executive director Marshall Doak declined to elaborate on what he called a personnel issue other than to say Satori had been hired under a six-month probation agreement. Ohlgren comes to SEWEDA with extensive experience as Assistant Executive Director of...
At Colfax Schools: Monday: Turkey ham and cheese hot pocket, fresh veggies, green salad, jell-o Tuesday: BBQ chicken patty on whole grain bun, fries, mixed hot veggies, fruit Wednesday: Sausage on a stick, egg patty, hash brown, juice, fruit Thursday: Beef dippers, whole grain cheesy bread, green salad, carrots, fruit Friday: Bulldog burger, whole grain with works, fries, BBQ beans, fruit, cake At Garfield/Palouse School: Monday: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes, gravy, carrots, apples, peaches, bread stick Tuesday: Taco meat, salsa, corn,... Full story
The 1963 girls returning for the reunion include, from the left, front, Tina Ochs, Palouse; Sydney Gault, Renton; Linda Walker Kayne, Lake Stevens; Donna Appel Connell, Spokane; Maureen Appel Clausen and Donna Colyar Kincaid, both Colfax; Claudia Forrey Disend, Burien, and Peggy DeVries Spiger, Portland. In the second row, from the left, are Susan Brown Songer, Portland; Carol Munson Newman, Queen Creek, Ariz.; Susan Russell, Portland; Dani Moore Klaveano, Colfax; Marcia Faires Frichett, Pasco;...
8 years ago The Commoner Oct. 5, 1888 R.H. Corcilius, the new proprietor of the Eureka barber shop, is receiving an excellent patronage which is fully merited by the first-class work he does. For a smooth shave, nobby hair cut or anything in the tonsorial line, call at his shop. You will leave well pleased. It is to be hoped that the fruit growers in Whitman County will make a creditable display of fruits at the coming fair. Quite a number of those engaged in fruit raising in the Palouse country did not even visit the fair last year. They...
Thursday, Oct. 3 Colfax, LaCrosse & Tekoa – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Thursday. Visit the online calendar for times. Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. 7 p.m. – Zumba Fitness with Brenda Camp – Pay by the month or by the class. Friday, Oct. 4 Colfax – 10 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for preschoolers and parents every Friday. LaCrosse School Gym & St. John Library – Singing with Nancy Stewart - Early learning opportun...
MCT will present Crusoe at Empire Missoula Children’s Theatre will present “The Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” with a cast of local students at the Tekoa Empire Theatre Oct. 25 at 7 p.m. and Saturday, Oct. 26 at 2 p. m. Ticket prices are $8 for adults, $6 for seniors and $5 for students. Watercolor show stars at Dahmen Each year Artisans at the Dahmen Barn features an exhibit and sale of original watercolor paintings by members of the Palouse Watercolor Socius. This year the exhibit runs from Oct. 3-27 with an opening reception schedule... Full story
The maps include designated “Indian Land” next to “McGregor” parcels, and plotted streets for places called “Revere,” “Palisades,” “Pandora” and “Rock Lake City.” The Whitman County Library now has a second copy of a 1910 bound county and world atlas as a result of a donation from Bob Earnest of Spokane, who dropped it by the library Sept. 24. Earnest, a Colfax High 1954 graduate, is the grandson of James Bitner, who is listed as a contributor to the book, and James and Mary Lynch, who began farming north of Colfax in 1908. Earnest said the...
Endicott St. John and Endicott School Districts have been implementing a character education program. This fall, the SJE High School ASB identified specific character traits to focus on each month. September’s character trait was tolerance. On Friday, Sept. 20, the ESJ Middle School ASB and leadership class organized an all-school assembly focusing on and teaching tolerance. The students were placed into diverse groups to determine what the members had in common and how they were all d...
Fifty years ago today (Oct. 3), John Henry walked into the office of Colfax Security on Main Street in Colfax. “I’ve been in the same place doing the same thing for the last 50 years,” he said. Henry and his wife, Agnes, moved here from the Tri-Cities where Henry was working with mutual funds and investments. “The business came up for sale and this seemed to be a better opportunity,” he said. Henry grew up in Colfax and at one time his father, Bo Henry, owned the business, but sold it. John...
How many times do we offer up excuses for not doing things that show our appreciation to people or God for good things in our lives or offer excuses for why we won’t or can’t do the things we need to do to fix our lives, even when they, or perhaps especially when they are really very simple to do. Excuses for many different things come to mind: the dog ate my sermon, my watch stopped, my alarm clock didn’t go off, traffic was heavy, I got stuck behind a combine (that was one that I would never have been able to offer until I moved up here,... Full story
Spokane Ag Expo at its 2014 show will again feature a photography contest celebrating agriculture. Photographers are asked to submit photos depicting “Agriculture in the Inland Northwest” by Nov. 29, 2013, to the Spokane Ag Expo office at 801 W. Riverside, Ste. 100, Spokane, 99201. All of the photographs entered will be displayed at Spokane Ag Expo 2014 which will be in the Spokane Convention Center Complex in the exhibit halls Feb. 4-6....
Jordan Vorderbrueggen and Sarah Beyea were married Sept. 7, 2013, in Turner, Ore. Jordan is the son of Albert and Shala Vorderbrueggen of Colfax. Sarah is the daughter of Julia and Dennis Labahn of Corvallis, Ore., and Robert Beyea of Salem, Ore. Jordan will graduate from Corban University in the winter of 2013 with a degree in business. Sarah is employed at 14th Avenue Spa in Albany, Ore., where the couple now resides. The Rev. Richard May conducted the ceremony. A Colfax wedding reception...
When Julie Green was a little girl, she began playing violin. After her class gave a recital to students at Jennings Elementary in Colfax, Keith Niehenke went home from kindergarten and announced that he wanted to play violin like that little red-haired girl. She was four years old, and he was five when they met in Suzuki violin lessons. Good friends since violin lessons, they grew up playing for all kinds of groups and events like benefit dinners, Rotary meetings and Chamber of Commerce... Full story
Dusty Sunday, Selbu Lutheran Church welcomed the Daughters of Norway from the Freya Lodge in Spokane for the morning worship services. About 30 women, dressed in Norwegian attire, attended services and were guests at a luncheon later in the church basement where Pastor Cross presented a video of pictures of the town of Selbu, Norway, and members of the church’s congregation. Les Wigen also presented the church with a photo of Selbu, Norway, which will hang in the church. Recent weekend guests of Fran Jones were Bruce and Cathy Williams of E...
Members of Peace Lutheran Church Sept. 22 donned their new “God’s Work, Our Hands” t-shirts to undertake projects to celebrate the 25th anniversary as an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The local celebration included work at Hamilton and Eells parks which included edging, weeding, raking and turning over wood chips under the play equipment. Members also planned to bake and deliver cookies to residents at Whitman Health & Rehab Center and The Courtyard Assisted Living....
An audience of 55 attended a forum about the Open Meetings Act, Appearance of Fairness Doctrine and Retaining Records Laws at the McGregor Co. Training Center at Mockonema on Sept. 25. Attendees included state, county and city officials, according to Karen Kiessling, vice president of the Pullman League of Women Voters which sponsored the event. The panel was made up of Toby Nixon, president of Washington Coalition for Open Government, a Microsoft computer manager and a Kirkland City...
Real esate sales James H. and Sandra L. Marple, Spokane, to Dustin and Amanda Link, Colfax, house on N. Hauser Avenue in Colfax, $175,000, Sept. 23. Casey A. and Kelley Jones to Bridget A. Koster, Colfax, house on N. Morton Street in Colfax, $160,000, Sept. 23. Clive C. and Carol A. Gay, Pullman, to Liam Breeze and Cori Dantini, Pullman, house on SE Grand Street in Pullman, $269,500, Sept. 23. Richard S. and Sandra J. Kroll, Pullman, to Nathaniel J. and Katie M. Bridges, Troy, Idaho, house on NW Terre View Drive in Pullman, $269,000, Sept. 23.... Full story
When I was in sixth grade, I noticed something wonderful, something I’d never seen before: girls. Well, OK, I’d seen them, but I felt about them the same way I felt about housecats: They did only what they wanted to do, and they weren’t any fun to wrestle. And, like cats, they could be cute sometimes, but they always left me feeling mildly allergic. And then one day the girl in front of me in class smiled at me, and chemicals flooded my brain, turning it into the Love Canal. My immediate reaction was to try to get the girl to perform that...
Amendment I would like to make an insert to show what I believe the definition of the Affordable Care Act should really be. They need to add Catastrophic before Affordable Care Act. This way the acronym would be CACA. I’m quite sure anyone familiar with Spanish would agree it more accurately describes what it entails. It would also clear up any misunderstanding “we the people” and Congress might have, even though Congress gets an exemption. I hope we all remember this come voting time. Mel Mundell, Elberton Samaritan Monday the 23rd, my wife an...
It contradicts the very concept of our nation: One in six Americans goes hungry some of the time — that’s one in six who is “food insecure,” the term used by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Forty-nine million in this land of plenty don’t get enough to eat. It’s even more shameful for children: One in five is deprived of adequate meals. But even that is not the worst. That would be the hateful vote by Republicans in the House of Representatives to severely cut the federal program that allows those millions to get the nutrition they need....
After spending a couple of days last week in Washington, D.C., I wonder how Congress and President Obama will settle their differences without hurting the taxpayers or crippling our struggling economy. There is a high-stakes duel going on inside the Beltway. House Republicans have approved a continuing resolution that provides stopgap funding for the federal government after Sept. 30 — except for Obamacare, the president’s costly health care law. Their position is that Senate Democrats and the president can avoid a government shutdown if they a...
As of this writing, the government of the United States is shutdown. Congress failed to fund it and, consequently, certain services are suspended. Some Republicans in the House of Representatives have refused to fund government operations. They want funding approval tied to the dismantling of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Recent polls indicate that 71 percent of Americans disapprove of holding the entire government hostage over one law. Other polls show that Congress has an approval rating of a mere 10 percent. Despite these numbers,...
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. JJ BUILDING SUPPLY TO CLOSE JJ Building Supply plans to close its Colfax store in the coming weeks. The store Monday announced plans for a going-out-of business sale with a 25 percent discount on most items in the main store. The business has operated in Colfax for the past eight years under Don and Sharon Judd. Most customers and suppliers at...
Colfax High School jayvee football team has been shut down for the season. Athletic Director Troy Nealey said injuries have depleted the football roster and the school lacks enough players to continue the jayvee schedule for the balance of the season. The shutdown included Monday’s scheduled game with Liberty and five more remaining games. Last week’s jayvee game was also cancelled because of a depleted jayvee team. Nealey said the roster for the jayvee teams had been depleted to about 11 players, not enough to safely conduct an 11-man foo...
St.John/Endioctt girls pegged 26 points to win team honors Tuesday at St. George’s. Other team scores in the District 7 meet were Reardan 34, and St. Michaels 72. Madison Ward won 19:54 on her home course which finishes with a downhill run in the sand. Placing for the Eagles team win were Heather Siegel third at 21;10, Jordan Porubek fourth at 21:26, Shania Bailey fifth at 21:27, Sammi Bailey 10th at 23:18, Jade Porubek 15th at 24:07, and Annie Bailey 19th and 26:23. St. George’s won the boys side with Hunter Olsen clocking 16:20. Kalub Kol...
