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Jennings Elementary School of Colfax was named a “school of distinction” this year by the Center for Educational Effectiveness (CEE) and Phi Delta Kappa International of Washington for being in the top five percent in the state. The award is for improvement and is calculated over a five year span. It uses assessments from grades four, seven and 10. The school will be officially honored Dec. 2 in Spokane by the CEE. Several other elementary schools in the region also won the award, including those from the Liberty Lake and Ritzville school dis...
St. John/Endicott High School has a bumper crop of foreign exchange students enrolled this year. Six students from around the world are residing in St. John or Endicott homes and attending class at the St. John high school. The 90-student school typically hosts two or three students a year, said Superintendent Rick Winters. Successes of families who have previously hosted exchange students could be the reason more families are participating this year, Winters said. “You know how things can snowball in a positive way sometimes. That’s what hap...
The 1914 Florence Ferguson house on N. Mill Street in Colfax has been added to the Washington Register of Historic Places by a unanimous vote of the Governor’s Advisory Council on Historic Preservation last week. The Ferguson house is owned by Tim Ely and Ann Marra. The council met Oct. 14 in the public library in downtown Spokane to review 17 properties that had applied to be on the list. The council also voted to forward the home for listing on the federal Department of the Interior’s National Register of Historic Places. Marra said the sta...
A $10,000 bond for Joseph S. Nesbitt, 24, Airway Heights, was set Wednesday in superior court after he was arrested at the Rosauer’s parking lot here Oct. 19 on probable charges of assault, harassment and unlawful imprisonment. Nesbitt was also arrested on an outstanding warrant from Asotin County. The arrest came after officers received a report of a “rolling” domestic dispute in a Mitsubishi Mirage which was northbound from Clarkston on Highway 195. The alleged victim of the dispute was Nesbitt’s former girlfriend who was taken by ambulan...
Dear Savvy Senior, Should I consider changing my Medicare (Part D) prescription drug plan during open enrollment season? My pharmacist told me that with all the changes coming next year, it would be a good time to shop and compare plans because I could probably find a better deal. What do you think? Retired Rita Dear Rita, Reviewing your Medicare Part D options during the open enrollment season (Nov. 15 – Dec. 31) is actually a smart thing to do every year, but it’s particularly important this year because of all the costs, coverage and pla...
Vets’ Assembly set for Garfield Garfield and Palouse Schools will host their annual Veterans’ Day Assembly in the Garfield-Palouse Middle School Gym in Garfield at 9:30 a.m. Friday, Nov. 5. The event is intended to honor veterans and remind students and families of the service and sacrifices that these men and women made. The assembly will feature the school choir and a local color guard, as well as a special address by the keynote speaker, veteran George Maupin, KHQ morning forecaster and meteorologist. All are welcome to attend. Keeler to...
Week of Nov. 1-5, 2010 At Tekoa School: Monday: Corn Dog or Chili Cheese Dog, Chips and Cheese, Tossed Salad, Grapes. Tuesday: Taco Burger, Tator Tots, Tossed Salad, Pears. Wednesday: Chicken Nuggets, Pork-n-Beans, Tossed Salad, Peaches, Hot Roll. Thursday: Spaghetti, Green Beans, Tossed Salad, Applesauce, Garlic Cheese Bread. Friday: Sausage Pattie, Egg Pattie, Hash Browns, Fruit Juicy, Biscuit. COUNCIL ON AGING, SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS, Week of Nov. 1-5, 2010 Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday — Pork loin, mashed potatoes and gravy...
Lamont Kathy Shields and her daughter, Billie Jo Davison, drove to Kirkland Thursday to visit Kathy’s granddaughter, Krista Schultz. Krista has just started a job with the Young Life organization and is an area associate for the Lake Washington Community. Young Life is an outreach ministry for high school and middle school students. On Thursday evening they attended the Young Life annual fund raising dessert reception which brought together between 350-400 people. On Friday evening Kathy’s nephew and wife, David and Lisa Nave of Renton, met...
One of the hospital’s core values is trustworthiness. This requires us to be open and honest with our patients, visitors and staff. I sincerely hope that everyone feels they can approach any hospital staff member about any subject at any time. However, I know that people sometimes are reluctant to surface issues. To help everyone express their thoughts, we recently installed suggestion/comment boxes in several locations around the hospital last week. There is a sign on each of these boxes that asks people to write me a “Dear David” note and t...
8 years ago, October 30, 1885 Chas. Mulkey, deputy Internal Revenue collector for eastern Washington, visited Colfax last week in search of smuggled opium. The search resulted in the finding of eighteen cans of the drug, which were seized. Bogus internal revenue stamps were found on four of the cans, the remainder not being stamped at all, the stuff having been smuggled in from Victoria. The Chinese employed counsel and the seizure will be contested as irregular. During a run of 60 days, Ringer and Manchester threshed in a strip of country ab...
Rosalia Rosalia Veterans will conduct a Veterans Day ceremony Nov. 11 at 10:30 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial site in Rosalia. It is located behind the Texaco Service Station. Patricia Voge, vice president of the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce, will be the emcee and the Rev. Mike Cooper will give the invocation. Rosalia Boys Scouts will lower the flag and raise a new one. Guest speaker will be Sgt. First Class Allen Ashworth from Fairchild Air Force Base. Washington DAR Chaplain Julie Pittman will...
Dusty Dianne Appel accompanied Colfax FFA delegates to the National FFA Convention in Indianapolis from Oct. 19-23. They spent Oct. 17-18 in Chicago before traveling on to the convention. They attended a performance of “The Lion King” and toured museums. Garret Link has moved into the house owned by Marc and Judy Watson. Link is renting the property while the Watsons are living and working near Cheney. Larry, Di and John Brink and Brandi Amstad went to Lilac Lanes in Spokane Sunday to watch Mike Stine and Norma Gibson bowl in a tournament. Mik...
LaCrosse LaCrosse Community Pride, a non profit organization dedicated to bringing a local grocery store to the community of LaCrosse took a big step forward Friday with the official ownership transfer of the building to the non-profit group. With ownership, the group can move forward with the installation of a new roof in November. In addition, the group can now seek out grants and other funding. Next cleanup is slated for Saturday, Oct. 30, at 8 a.m. Anyone who wants to assist is welcome. They will continue to remove and discard items from...
As a girl, Heidi Brincken liked to play with scraps of fabric, making small things like dolly blankets. “I’ve been quilting since I was little,” she said. Now as owner of the Quilted Moose in Colfax, she is still playing with fabric. “I really love it,” Heidi said. Heidi moved to the area two years ago with husband Cory. Cory grew up in Pullman and now works at Whitcom. Her mother, Caren Barber, had a quilting store in Cashmere for a while and wanted to open another. Heidi talked her into open...
Oscar-winning actor Patty Duke lent her celebrity to help out a St. John family who lost their husband and father to cancer last June. Eleven St. John area residents purchased tickets for a benefit dinner Oct. 16 with Duke at the Coeur d’Alene Resort. Proceeds from the tickets benefited the family of the late Jon Bass, former owner of St. John Auto Repair. He died June 2 after a long fight with cancer. Cost of the dinner was paid by Catering Co., St. John Salon, Webb’s Empire Foods and Gordon Bros., a Pasco winery run by St. John natives. Att...
Gazette editor Jerry Jones of Colfax will share two distinct styles of his art in the next Meet the Artist program. He will present “One Cow & Some Australians” Nov. 4 at 7 p.m. in the library’s new downstairs meeting room on Main Street in Colfax. The series is co-sponsored by Colfax Arts Council and Whitman County Library. Jones will talk about the creation of Patience Palouse, mascot of the Palouse Empire Fair for a number of years. He will also “debut” oil paintings which derived from a Rotary Group Study Exchange trip to Australia...
What lessons should farmers take from this year’s historically bad stripe rust infection? Hard to say, according to Xianming Chen, a stripe rust researcher with the United States Department of Agriculture’s Ag Research Service at Pullman. Chen said the rust infection of 2010 was the most wide-spread on record. “The way things lined up, it created very favorable conditions for the infection cycles of stripe rust,” he said. The cool, wet spring that followed a warm end of winter provided the perfect conditions for rust. Such a pervasive outbrea...
Two-hundred and fifty-five ballots have been received as of Tuesday from Colton/Uniontown voters on the proposal to overhaul the Colton school building, according to the auditor’s elections staff. A 60 percent majority vote will be needed to pass the $5.1 million 20-year bond proposal. The project will include a $5.86 million match from the state. Deadline for return of the ballots is Nov. 2. There are 717 active voters and 36 inactive voters in the school district as of Oct. 26. A strained electrical and worn heating system are among r...
Another year brings another sobering list of needs for Colfax’s F.I.S.H. food pantry. While the pantry is being supplied at a steady pace, it is still in need of basic supplies, according to F.I.S.H. food director Hannah Walker. “We’re treading water and we’re staying even. We can stay even for the rest of the year,” Walker said. F.I.S.H. stands for Friends in Service of Humanity. The group supplies the Colfax Community Action Center pantry. For the second year, staffers at the county treasurer’s office are conducting a food drive for the pan...
City Administrator Carl Thompson Monday issued a report on his review of “run sheets” which record dispatches of ambulances and fire trucks from the Colfax station. Thompson said over a three year, seven month period, the logs show he served 552 hours on ambulance runs during normal business hours at city hall. Thompson pointed out the tally equals 12.8 hours a month or about three hours a week. Thompson made a review of the run sheets after City Councilman David Nails at the last council session Oct. 18 said records he reviewed showed Thompson...
Appreciate I have not been involved with the situation involving the city of Colfax and the volunteer firemen and ambulance. There is one issue, however, that I have heard about which I would like to address. The issue is whether or not an employee of the city should be going on ambulance runs, as a volunteer, while on duty as a city employee. If anyone is bothered that the volunteers are “compensated” while on an ambulance run, I would like to point out that the last two audits by the Employment Security Department consider the payments to...
October is National Sarcastic Awareness Month. Right, I’ll be sure to celebrate that. It’s also National Caffeine-Addiction-Recovery Month, but I don’t know what events the organizers are planning because I’ve slept through the meetings. Some people celebrate October as Bat-Appreciation Month, which I can, well, appreciate, but I am not sure what to make of the declaration that it’s also National Window-Covering-Safety Month: I guess one should cover one’s windows with drapes and not with something less safe, like maybe explosives. Most signif...
Kettle Falls, a favorite foe for the Colfax Bulldogs when they played in the NE-A League, will return to Schmuck Park Friday night to renew the rivalry during homecoming week. The Bulldogs from the north end will arrive after a 47-14 win over Liberty in the last Friday’s league round. Kettle, which was allowed by the WIAA to drop down to the 2B division after last year’s enrollment count, has had tough sledding for most of their first NE season. Last week’s crush of Liberty was the second win of the season for the northerners. The K dogs are n...
A graveside service for Elmer Paul Schluneger, 80, a life-long Colfax area resident, will be Friday, Oct. 29, at 11:30 a.m. in the Onecho Cemetery followed by a memorial service at noon in the Onecho Bible Church. The Rev. Ken McNaughton will officiate. Viewing will be Wednesday afternoon and Thursday at Bruning Funeral Home in Colfax. Mr. Schluneger died Sunday, Oct. 24, 2010, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane. Born Nov. 9, 1929, in Colfax, he was one of seven children of Albert and Evalina Schrag Schluneger. He grew up on the family...
Baum, Colson Daniel, born Oct. 7, 2010, at eight pounds, 11 ounces, to Daniel and Erin Baum of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are David and Sharlene Baum, Abilene, Texas. Maternal grandparents are Steven and Sharon Bailey, Puyallup. The baby joins one sister, Ava, 3, and one brother, Parker, 1. Taiyo, born Oct. 6, 2010, at six pounds, to Fumika and Hiromu Kurosaki of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Minoru and Soyoki Kurosaki, Yokohama, Japan. Maternal grandparents are Kosake and Etsuko Sato, Kushiro, Japan. The baby joins two brothers,...
