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Toni Hennigar, daughter of Tom and Georgia Hennigar of St. John, and Brandon Jorgensen, son of Larry Perringer and Suzanne Pfaff-Hennigar of Oakesdale, will be married Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Palouse Empire Fairground. The bride-elect graduated from St. John/Endicott High School and attended the University of Idaho where she studied elementary education. She is now employed at Umpqua Bank in Colfax. Jorgensen graduated from Oakesdale High School and studied criminal justice at Spokane... Full story
Janice Pittmann lives out in the country between towns and is active in several of them. All of Whitman County feels like home to her. She was born so far out that her parents moved the family to Cheney for Janice and her sister to attend school. After high school, her cousin, Glenn Terrell, who was president at the time, encouraged her to attend Washington State University. He was disappointed when she chose Eastern Washington University. She earned bachelor’s degrees in speech c... Full story
Dusty Steve and Becky Camp hosted a family reunion this past weekend for 68 members of the Largent-Lukins families, Steve’s maternal branch of the family. Special guests were Steve’s mother, Donna Camp, and her brother Richard Lukins of Portland. It was the first family reunion in 30 years. Relatives came from as far away as South Carolina and Montana. Some of them stayed at the Parsonage Bed and Breakfast. Vicki Broeckel served breakfast there for 16 of the family Sunday morning. The reunion was a great time of sharing good food and family mem...
Colfax High School track coach Jason Cooper hands out papers (above) at a meeting of the C-Town Project Sept. 10 in his classroom at Jennings Elementary School. The group aims to raise $370,000 to replace the track at Schmuck Park. The sum would be combined with $130,000 from the Colfax School District fund which has been set aside for the project. C-town is now applying for grants and working on a feasibility study, which lays out the details of the project and what it will involve to complete...
Rosalia Gazette correstpondent In honor of St. Francis of Assisi, who had a joyous connection to God’s creatures, Rosalia United Methodist Church will sponsor a blessing of the animals Sunday, Oct. 5 at 1 p.m. in the Rosalia City Park for a brief service, followed by cider and doughnuts. All residents are invited! The blessing will celebrate them and the caregiving that is expressed daily. Dogs, cats, birds, guinea pigs, goldfish, horses, reptiles and other creatures are welcome! Owners are r...
Fifteen area students were listed on the summer semester honor roll at Washington State University. They included Kyle Robert Brown, Brady James Cornelius, Lauri Lynn Gay; and Gabriel Jacob Korn, Colfax; Dave Karre, Ian Christian Nelson and Erin Faith Weber, Colton; Alexander Joseph Mueller, Farmington; Richard Melton Griffiths, Garfield; Kaylee M. Zimmer, LaCrosse; Susan Renee Hooper and Craig L. Wines. Oakesdale; Tory Glen Jerome Knebel, Pomeroy; Kristin Ann Paulson, Rosalia; and Mikael Sydney Bailey, St. John....
Healthy Tekoa coalition members Carrie Hubert, Sharon Esquivel, and Diane Harp Sept. 19 attended a "Youth Mental Health First Aid" class in Clarkston. The class covered mental health challenges including descriptions and first aid for depression anxiety, eating disorders, substance use disorders, and attention deficit. Also covered were youth in crisis, including details about suicidal thoughts and self-injury. The coalition hopes to get more community trained and ready to administer first aid if they notice any of the above behaviors. John... Full story
St. John volleyball fans do “The Wave” in a show of support for their home squad during a battle of the undefeateds vs. league foe Oakesdale. The Nighthawks came away with the victory and headed home with an untarnished record....
An old county schoolhouse has been restored and is now open to the public as part of a senior project for Colton High School. Savannah Chadwick, 17, led the effort to reclaim what had become a shed for combine headers on her grandfather’s property four miles outside Uniontown. The one-room Taufen School closed in 1938, after 46 years in operation. Later, it was moved a hundred yards to the existing site, in order for Hubert Meyer, Chadwick’s great grandfather, to build a house on the pro...
The good news is we are developing new life-saving medications every day. The bad news is they are very expensive and paying for them could bankrupt our health care system. For example, Avastin, which is prescribed to treat a number of cancers, costs $100,000 a year per patient. Soliris, used to treat a rare blood and kidney disorder, costs almost $410,000 per year. The latest medication drawing attention is Sovaldi. While highly effective in curing patients with chronic hepatitis C, it costs about $1,000 a pill or about $84,000 for a standard...
Editor’s Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. When my children get together to tell scary stories, one of their favorites is The Time That Dad Cooked. By “the Time” they are actually referring to a stretch of several months when the only person cooking the food was the same one who paid for it — a concentration of power that very decidedly worked against them. My oldest child was, at this point, a teenage girl, and therefore had valid reason to suspect I might want to poison her. The other two were younger and felt fr...
During the past few weeks, two sets of initials have dominated the news — ISIL and NFL — and the casual listener would be hard-pressed to decide which is more odious. It’s a wonder that President Barack Obama hasn’t pledged to bring NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell to justice. Such is the weight the press has put on the NFL’s punishment of Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice for punching his then-fiancee that Denis McDonough, the president’s chief of staff, had to weigh in on “Meet the Press”: “We all know Ray Rice being suspended indefin...
EMS Team at work Yesterday I witnessed a great group of men and women from our community, our EMS team, mostly volunteer. These folks descended upon our football field to give of their training, expertise, aid and comfort to a young jr. high football team lad who had broken his arm. They did an extraordinary job, they were very officious, paid attention to detail and were quite professional in their dealings with the victim and the gathering crowd. Please remember that this “team” is composed of our friends and neighbors who give freely of the...
It’s become quite the thing for celebrities, or even semi-celeb journalists, to let us in on the dark secrets of their lives. Whether it’s coming out as gay, confessing past drug use, revealing they’ve battled severe anxiety, you name it, it’s become trendy to reveal something or other that’s deeply personal. A big one currently is that he or she was abused. Frankly, my response usually is a big “Thank you for sharing,” by which I mean, “Who cares?” You’d never see me dishing about my private shame. Until now. I can’t go on any longer without...
Three TSA guards on airport security duty stood in a tight group and talked to each other for more than an hour. One had a dog and was on K9 duty. The dog was more attentive than the humans. Presumably, these guards were there for more than just socializing. Now, security breaches at the White House are being revealed. Bullets have hit the White House, and the secret service did not know it until maintenance personnel discovered the bullet holes. The incident had been previously discounted by those on duty who assumed the rifle shots were only... 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. VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE Deadline for on-line and mailed voter registration changes for the general election is Monday, Oct. 6. The deadline for in-person registration of new voters and out-of-state voters at the elections office here and in Pullman is Oct. 27. Ballots will go out on Oct. 17, the required 18 days before the Nov. 4 general... Full story
Colfax bagged football win number four Friday night before a homecoming crowd after stacking a quick 21 points in the first quarter over a much improved Northwest Christian team. The Bulldogs and Crusaders gave the circuits on the Schmuck Park scoreboard a workout before it finished at 50-27 for the Bulldogs. "Northwest Christian is a much-improved team. They were here with a 2-1 record, and they played like a 2-1 team." Colfax Coach Mike Morgan noted. The Crusaders, who have zero seniors on the roster, figure to be that much tougher in coming... Full story
Pomeroy pulled out a five-game win over Oakesdale Tuesday in the SE volleyball campaign to land in a tie with the Nighthawks for the league lead. Both teams are now 6-1 in the campaign with one match left for the first round of league action. Pomeroy topped the Nights hawks with a 15-6 win in the fifth game after the two team split over the first four games, 22-25 25-13 23-25 25-22. Ally Bott had booked 17 kills for the Pirates and Savannah Ruark had 12 kills. Jacey Johnson had 14 kills for the...
Now rolling on an 11 -0 record, Colfax volleyball players will head for the big Spokane crossover tournament Saturday with high expectations. In addition to a top finish in the event, which includes 64 teams, the Bulldogs will be out to nail career win number 800 for Coach Sue Doering. The Bulldogs stacked win 796 for Doering Tuesday night on a league trip to Reardan, and will be out to bag 797 tonight when they travel to Tekoa to play the Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves. Saturday at the Spokane crossover, Colfax will begin with pool play at Ferris...
Tyler Thurman slapped his hands in frustration after a couple passes slipped through his grasp Homecoming night in the first half against Touchet. But there was still time. A leaping Thurman catch off the shoulder pad of an interfering defender gave Garfield-Palouse a touchdown late in the second quarter. After quarterback Hunter Woltering scrambled for the two-point conversion, the game was tied 20-20. But there was still time. With only 32 seconds remaining until the half, Touchet quickly... Full story
The young Tekoa-Rosalia team began the season with 26 players on the roster. Now they’re down to 17, and even younger. Against Reardan last Friday, down 50-0 at halftime, coach Bob Bucsko decided to call the game. "The kids didn’t want to. We just made the decision in their best interest. Rather than to risk more injuries." The team will play next at home Friday against Kettle Falls....
St. John-Endicott runners competed Saturday in the second running of the Inland Empire Classic sponsored by Lewis Clark State College on the multi-distance course. Chandler Tiegen of Asotin led the boys race, which featured entrants from big schools in the field of over 100 runners, with a 15:41 for the 5K course. Kaleb Kolb again led the Eagles with 19:52 for 70th. Other finishers were Parker Perry, 85th at 21:09, Tanner Dingman, 90th at 21:28, Jacob Blakeley, 102 a 23:57. Katherine Kaul of Sandpoint took the girls race at 18:35 with Lucy...
Joe Pakootas, the Democrat challenging Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers for the 5th Congressional seat, made a campaign stop in Colfax Sept. 24. Pakootas also spoke at the Foley Institute on the WSU campus as part of his campaign swing through the county. A Native American from Inchelium, Pakootas served 16 years on the Colville Tribal Council and is now CEO of the Colville Tribal Council Federal Corporation. In a stop at the Gazette office, Pakootas said he believes his campaign is gaining ground...
On the morning of Tuesday, Sept. 30, this 2013 GMC Terrain driven by James Berry, 39, of Pullman crossed the center line and collided with a southbound 2013 Kenworth semi truck and trailer driven by Darrell Adams, 57 of Savona, B.C., near the Cougar Foodmart on Main Street in Colfax. Rescue crews had to extricate Berry due to extensive crushing of the vehicle. He was transported to WHMC as a precaution. Adams was uninjured. Traffic on the north end of Colfax was diverted around the scene....
A problem with the water system at Colfax Cemetery is now being remedied after a summer of work to fix the matter. Encroaching dry grass seen in the past three months showed the result of having no water at the facility for all of June and half of July. “The problem was multiple broken water lines that had us down for about six weeks,” said Craig Corbeill, Chairman, Colfax Cemetery District No. 6. “We understand the cemetery’s condition is not up to par.” Corbeill indicated that the issue starte...
