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Many Flu Shot Options Available Dear Savvy Senior, I understand that there are a number of different flu vaccines being offered to adults this flu season. What can you tell me about them? Seeking Protection Dear Seeking, Depending on your age, health and personal preference, there are six different ways to get immunized against influenza this year. Just as they do every year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a seasonal flu shot to almost everyone over the age of 6 months because it’s still the best protection a...
Holidays exhibit will be at Dahmen An exhibit titled Home for the Holidays will open Nov. 1 and run through Dec. 29 at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown. Resident artists and invited artists will offer new works, some with a holiday theme, for sale. As the season progresses from fall to Christmas, new pieces will be added. The artist reception will be Sunday, Nov. 3, from 1 to 4 p.m. CLUBS & YOUTH GROUPS Rosalia Garden Club The public is invited to the club for a special guest day Wednesday, Nov. 6, at in the Rosalia United Methodist Church. It will...
A superior court jury Oct. 23 ruled the defendant in a civil suit involving a winter driving accident in Pullman was not at fault and declined to award damages. The jury returned its verdict at 6:55 p.m. after beginning deliberation shortly after 5 p.m. following a three-day trial. Ani Derderian and her spouse filed the suit against Breanna Bart in February of 2011. The suit sought damages after the vehicle Bart was driving struck the back of a vehicle in which Derderian was riding on B Street in Pullman Feb. 6, 2008. The suit noted both...
Whitman Hospital & Medical Center is happy to join in the celebration of the opening of Washington HealthPlanFinder. Starting Oct. 1 uninsured residents in Whitman County can enroll in quality, affordable health plans simply by calling or visiting www.wahealthplanfinder.org. Coverage begins on Jan. 1, 2014. Too many people in our area are living without health insurance, which puts their health and their finances at serious risk. We have been working in the community to help raise people’s awareness of the new coverage options, and we’ve als...
A good turnout of Colfax grads attended the October luncheon in Spokane. A total of 40 attended with 10 of those being first-timers. The next luncheon will be Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. FRONT: Carol Field Rubin (1960), Barbara Long Martin (1953), Marilyn Skeat Closson (1959), Jayne Carson Reynolds (1962), Pat Henry Noris (1952), Sandy Suess Forstrom (1962), Mary Repp Covert (1948). BACK: Rosalinda Rogers Schluneger (1962), Joanne Davis Jepperson (1953), Florence Perry Tetrick (1956), Sharon Hull...
8 years ago The Commoner Nov. 2, 1888 Mrs. L.K. Mitchell desires to say to the people of Colfax and vicinity that she will give instructions in vocal and instrumental music with eastern methods and facilities. Special attention given to voice culture. For further particulars inquire of her at her house in south Colfax. The vase of flowers that took the premium at the Whitman County Fair was grown from seeds obtained from Robert Scott & Son, Penrose nurseries, N.E. cor. of 19th and Catherine streets, Philadelphia, Pa. At a meeting of the...
Resignation of Troy Nealey as athletic director was accepted Monday night at the school board. Nealey, who has been commuting to the job here from Spokane since Sept. 1, said he has been hired for a position with youth sports organization in Spokane which will include full-time employment and benefits....
Pullman Regional Hospital was among 16 hospitals to receive the 2013 Washington State Hospital Association Safe Care in Action award at the organization’s 81st annual meeting in Seattle. “Patient safety remains a critical area of focus, and we are grateful to have our efforts recognized by our peers. Assuring that we are attentive to this aspect of our work enables best practices in our hospital to become second nature-and that’s what’s best for our patients,” said Scott Adams, hospital CEO. The award was presented to hospitals that achieved...
At St. John School: Monday: Hamburgers, fries, cherry crisp Tuesday: No School Wednesday: Sloppy Joes, green beans, apples and oranges Thursday: Turkey sub, pasta salad, pork n’ beans, mandarin oranges Friday: Pizza, green salad, pineapple At LaCrosse School: Monday: Hamburger deluxe, chips, pears, fresh veggies Tuesday: Beefeater, corn, peaches, frosted graham cracker Wednesday: Burrito, pasta salad, mandarin oranges, brownie Thursday: Chicken noodle, vegetable beef, P.B. & Jelly/Bologna, lettuce salad, fresh veggies Friday: Chicken fajita, s...
Left to right: Team one, Jacob Arlt, Mitch Jamison, Hunter Woltering, Matt Dymkoski and Lexi Rodriguez. Left to right: Team two, Daniel Arlt, Ashley Swall, Mitch Dymkoski, Wyatt Griner and Holly Brown. The Garfield Palouse FFA teams placed second and third at state competition near the Tri-Cities on Oct. 23. Fifteen schools attended the competition with more than 23 teams competing. The year started with 59 teams, and only the best competed at the state competition. Garfield-Palouse team one...
Washington State University will host a day-long festival for regional high school and middle school orchestras Nov. 1 with workshops and performances in Kimbrough Hall. The festival will be highlighted by a free public performance by a faculty trio and the WSU symphony orchestra. Meredith Arksey, violin; Ruth Boden, cello, and Jeff Savage, piano, will perform the allegretto movement from “Piano Trio No. 2” in E minor by Shostakovich at 12:20 p.m. in Bryan Hall. The first movement of “Symphony No. 5” by Beethoven and the final sections of “Bil...
Thursday, Oct. 31 Colfax, LaCrosse and 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. Friday, Nov. 1 Endicott and St. John – Individual Insurance Help – Chelsea Fanara from Pullman Rural Resources will be available to give individual, impartial help in finding your best option for health insurance. Visit the online calendar for times. Saturday, Nov. 2 Rosalia – 10 a.m. to Noon ... Full story
Royal Eagles The 2013 St. John Endicott homecoming royalty were crowned Friday night at halftime of the football game against LaCrosse-Washtucna. (From left to right). Queen Heather Siegel and King Landon Hallenious, junior princess Nele Lemke and junior prince Robin Becker, sophomore prince Weston Whinery and sophpmore princess Jazmyn Ray, freshman prince Cooper Lundberg and freshman princess Hunter Hollingsworth. Colton crowns royalty Christine Stout was crowned as homecoming queen Friday at...
Kahlotus will host the Southeast Washington junior high mass band and choir festival in Braddock Gymnasium, Tuesday, Nov. 5, with 600 students expected from Asotin, Clarkston, Colfax, Colton, Dayton, Garfield/Palouse, Kahlotus, LaCrosse, Oakesdale, Pullman, Rosalia, St. John/Endicott, Tekoa, Touchet, Waitsburg and Washtucna. The festival will culminate with a concert open to the public at 6:30 p.m. Guest conductors will be Kathy Mancinelli from Columbia Basin College for the choir and Lee Shook, formerly of Gonzaga/ Whitworth for the band.... Full story
Dusty Art and Colene Sager spent last week in Kona, Hawaii, with Art’s brother and wife, Floyd and Linda Sager from Boise. The Sagers flew their plane to Boise so that the two couples could travel together on the airline. Saturday, on their way home from Boise, Art and Colene stopped in Midvale, Idaho, and visited Colene’s 98 year old aunt and her cousin and wife who care for the aunt. Colene’s aunt still lives in the farm home where she has lived all her married life. David and Phyllis Stueckle recently spent a week on the other side of the m... Full story
Colfax High School graduates of 1948 gathered for a 65-year class reunion Sept. 20 - 21. Darl Prouty hosted a cocktail party at his Spokane home Friday. Attendees were welcomed by his 1929 Model A pickup in the yard with a large sign that read “Welcome Class of ‘48.” Saturday the grads met at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane for a luncheon in the Palm Court. This was the 10th reunion for the class. Winston Mader, Jimmie Savitz and Prouty have attended all of them. In front, from the left, are C...
Melinda Wilkins was born and raised in Spokane until she started high school when the family moved to Tekoa. Her parents are natives of Farmington and Tekoa, so the small town was familiar. However, living here full-time was purely culture shock for a Spokane ninth grader. The big advantage was she could take part in many high school activities that she could not have done in high school in Spokane. After graduating from Tekoa High School, she moved to Spokane, started school, got a job and met...
Endicott Grandparents gathered from near and far to spend the morning with their grandchildren at Endicott School Monday. One grandparent was a little late because he had to drive part way in snow from Priest River, Idaho. Some of the grandparents were surrogates and volunteered to be sure that most of the children had someone to be with them for the morning. The grandparents spent the morning in the classrooms. At lunch time every one enjoyed eating in the school cafeteria which was decorated with Fall and Halloween decorat...
Pearl Harwood of Coeur d’Alene has played piano professionally for 78 years, and Saturday, Nov. 2, she and the group “All That Jazz” will perform at the Empire Theater in Tekoa. Curtain time is 7 p.m. Harwood became fascinated with the piano at 18 months of age. She taught herself music theory and basic practices from books and, later, from experience. Coming of age during the Big Band era, Harwood began playing regular gigs while still a teenager. “Nobody asked me how old I was, and I didn’t tell them,” she admits. Along the way she played wit...
Rob Smith, respiratory therapist at Whitman Hospital, will be featured in the November Artist of the Month session next Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7 p.m. in the Colfax library McGregor Room. Smith said one of his greatest passions is creating literature for children. He has experience with video creation, animation, web site design and app creation. He expresses himself through water color, pen and ink, writing and digital media. Smith has recently published “Undead Ted,” a children’s book avail...
Charly Lisenbee, back, and Jake Lisenbee, Addy Lisenbee and Violet King cause a fright in the pumpkin masks they made for their Storytime craft at the Farmington library.... Full story
More than a dozen photos of the Palouse appeared on-line in an article in a United Kingdom newspaper. Christine Haines of Spokane said she has had her photos printed in other foreign countries, but these are the first of the Palouse. “It all started with a photo of a squirrel I uploaded to my Flickr Photo Stream,” she said in an email. A special features editor from a photographic press agency contacted her about getting the squirrel image published around the world, and the photo was pub...
About 25 representatives from Rosalia, St. John, Endicott, Colton, Oakesdale, the county and waste haulers, attended a meeting Oct. 23 in Rosalia to discuss single stream recycling. The meeting was organized by Judi Dunn-Gray, county recycling and waste reduction manager, who reported before the session that small towns in the county are having difficulties with the frequency of collections and charges for the hauls. Although small towns want to recycle, the cost is too high for the new single stream recycling, placing all recyclables in one... Full story
A city inquiry into the status of Vista Pointe Drive, which serves Hill Ray and the Ag Service Center in the southwest corner of Colfax, has determined the street has never been dedicated as a city street. Carl Thompson, now interim administrator for the city, told the city council Oct. 21 he has checked records of city meetings and determined a proposal to make Vista Pointe Drive a city street was never finalized, possibly because of an easement dispute which surfaced at the time. Councilman Steve Holberg, who is president of the Hill Ray boar...
Real estate sales Kathleen Parker to Paul E. and Ellen J. Pack, Ammon, Idaho, home on Kerns Avenue in Steptoe, $54,900, Oct. 22. Adam and Hannah Ganders to Ryan L. and Nicole E. Clements, Pullman, home on NW Ventura Drive in Pullman, $195,000, Oct. 24. Bonanza LLC, Kennewick, to ASR Rental Co., Spokane Valley, unincorporated land, $1,610,488, Oct. 24. Chad R. and Ann E. Schwendiman, Pullman, to Oscar Riera-Lizarazu and M. Isabel Vales, Pullman, home on SE Bellevue Street in Pullman, $244,000, Oct. 24. David E. Miller, Spokane, to S&L Rentals LL...
