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Pataha Flour Mill, near Pomeroy, will have its annual “Christmas Tea” Dec. 10th, from 2 to 4 p.m. It is characterized by a wide variety of Christmas treats and hot beverages, along with festive Christmas music. Children singing and playing musical instruments will be featured this year, and Pastor Roger Pederson, of Pomeroy First Christian Church, will tell a children’s story. The event is free, but donations will be gratefully received.... Full story
Couch son born Jace Jeffrey Couch was born Dec. 2, 2011, at Whitman Hospital and Medical Center at seven pounds, 13 ounces, to Lori Herne and John Couch. Maternal grandparent is Karen Schroer of Colfax. Paternal grandparents are Blake and Sandy Couch of Oakesdale. This is the couple’s first child....
Dr. Ian Burke of Washington State University will speak about managing weeds in crops planted by direct seed at the Dec. 15 breakfast meeting of the Colfax Palouse Direct Seeders. The breakfast meeting will be at Colfax United Methodist Church starting at 7 a.m. The university has been researching weed management in direct seeding, and Burke will answer growers’ questions about how best to handle weeds. Frank Wolf of Uniontown will also speak on his family’s direct seeding system, what has worked and what has not. For more information, con...
Dusty Fran Jones and her son Bryan, both of Dusty, returned recently from a trip to Chatillon, Italy, where they visited her daughter Gena and family. Warren Jones, Post Falls, Idaho, spent a weekend with Fran and Bryan to belatedly celebrate his birthday. B.B. Club members will decorate the St. Patrick’s Catholic Church Parish Hall in Colfax today, Dec. 8, at 9:30 a.m. Rita Ackerman and Jane Aune are co-hostesses. Bring stocking stuffer items for senior citizens for roll call. The Christmas party will be Friday, Dec. 9, at 6 p.m. in the P...
The Colfax High School jazz band topped off the school holiday concert Monday night in the CHS auditorium. Students from fifth grade up participated in the hour-long concert. Colfax vocal students will perform Monday at 7 p.m. in the auditorium....
Colton High School gym will be the site of “Honor Flight: Veterans Assembly” at 9 a.m. today, Dec. 8. The event is to honor veterans and current military personnel, help inform and raise money for the Honor Flight program. For more information or to name a veteran to be honored, contact Nora Moser or Jody Moehrle.... Full story
I appreciated Gordon Forgey’s editorial in the Gazette two weeks ago. I’m glad that a message is again being sent to Congress about the failure of their super committee’s work and the failure of Congress in general to do what’s best for this country and the American people. I hope that the legislators in Washington, D.C. will sooner rather than later get the messages and act, as he said, like adults (instead of two-year-olds fighting over who gets all the toys, and who gets to be re-elected). There is a quotation attributed to Justice Oliver...
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. ELECTION LEAVES PLANNING GAPS Colfax Planning Commission now has three empty seats as a result of the general election results. Todd Vanek and Jim Kackman have to step down because they have been elected to office as mayor and councilman respectfully, Mayor Norma Becker reported at Monday night’s city council session. Tom Kammerzell has r...
Washington State Department of Ecology has fined Pullman area cattle producer Marcus Jacobson $24,000 for continuing to discharge polluted water from his feedlot into a tributary of the South Fork Palouse River in violation of a 2010 order, according to a new release from Jani Gilbert of the DOE. Jacobson was fined $4,000 in September of 2010 and ordered to stop polluting the water and to obtain a permit as a Confined Animal Feeding Operation (CAFO). The permit requires documentation that actions have been taken to permanently prevent further...
The 2012 Colfax City Budget was approved at Monday night’s Colfax city council session. The budget total of $3,213,427 is approximately $180,140 more than the current year budget with most of the increases expected in capital expense spending items. At one point in the budget preparation this fall, the city spending plan was about $40,000 more than expected revenue. Most of that gap was filled by eliminating a $30,000 transfer from the general fund into the information technology fund for computer improvements and upgrades. The $30,000 will rem... Full story
Week of Dec. 12-16 At Colfax Schools: Daily items offered at Colfax High School include salad bar, chicken sandwiches, hamburgers, deli sandwiches, vegetarian options, fresh & canned fruit, fresh vegetables, oven fries, yogurt, cottage cheese, bagels and juice. Monday: Hamburgers with the works Tuesday: Strawhats w/ works, fritos, cinnamon roll Wednesday: Spikes pizza Thursday: Beef dippers, fried rice Friday: Hot dogs or chili dogs JES Monday: Hamburgers w/ the works, oven fries, fruit Tuesday: Strawhats w/ the works, frito chips, refried...
Newt Gingrich racked up between $1.6 and $1.8 million in payments from Freddie Mac through the years for, the former speaker maintains, essentially doing nothing. It’s not inconceivable that he’s right. Such was the incredible largesse available to the government-sponsored mortgage giant that one or two million dollars over the course of a decade was practically chump change. Gingrich says he didn’t lobby for Freddie, and in response to a question about his payments at one of the Republican debates, said he only offered advice to Freddie “as a...
Malden Library and Community Center offers patrons nearly 60 hours a week of computer availability, children’s programming and library services. Come in Monday through Friday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. or Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Patrons may request books, movies and audios be delivered to Malden. Residents with internet can request their own items from the library website: www.whitco.lib.wa.us The Knit Wits meet every Wednesday from 1-3 p.m. at the home of Joyce Darou. All ages and skill levels are welcome to share and learn n... Full story
The United States Postal Service is facing billions of dollars in losses, and it has to make changes. Its solution: raise prices and cut service. With the internet and package delivery services already stealing business from the once proud organization, these changes can only guarantee a continued slide. Over the last ten years, its volume has reportedly dropped 29 percent. It is expected to be halved from this in the next ten years. To catch up with the decline and to be ready for what is to come, USPS will cut out nearly half of its processin... Full story
SOMEBODY STOLE my newspapers from my driveway on Thanksgiving morning which should have been no surprise since bad luck usually befalls me on that holiday. I won’t go into detail over the previous Thanksgivings which involve hospital visits to the emergency room, storms that knocked the power out and such as that. I had no intention anyway of shopping on Black Friday using ads that made the papers almost too heavy to stagger up the stairs to the house with when my paper lady brought me replacements. I think the ads were the lure, however, f...
W. Bruce Cameron My dad asks me if I’d like to go ice fishing in his shanty with him. “Why don’t we both just crawl into the freezer? It’s bigger, warmer, and there are more fish in there,” I suggest. “Very funny,” he says to me. This is what my father has said to me after every joke I have ever told him. His lips say it; his face never does. An ice-fishing shanty is basically a tin outhouse out on a frozen lake, except that in an outhouse the hole has a purpose. In ice fishing, the hole is what you stare at for hours, hoping that at some...
A Pullman neighbor who called 911 and used an extinguisher on a fire at a neighbor’s residence was credited with preventing what could have been a serious house fire on Pullman’s Sunnyside Hill Sunday. Fire investigator Erik Taylor credited Spencer Clawson with putting out most of the fire with the extinguisher after he called 911 at about 1 p.m. Nobody was at home at the time of the fire, but firefighters heard dogs barking inside when they arrived on the scene. When firefighters opened the back door of the smoke-filled residence, one of the...
A motion filed Nov. 28 on behalf of the Town of Rosalia in superior court seeks reconsideration of a court ruling in favor of Josh Bryan in his suit against the town. In a partial summary judgment Nov. 16 the court ruled Rosalia breached a licensing agreement it had made with Bryan for production of the now defunct “100 Years of Motorcycles” rally in Rosalia. The suit was filed by Bryan against Rosalia, the Rosalia Chamber of Commerce and others after officials ended his link with the rallies after the 2007 event. In its Nov. 16 decision, the...
Energy utility Avista is putting up a pair of meteorological towers to measure how much wind blows around Palouse. The company received building permits from Whitman County Dec. 1 to construct two 60-meter met towers near Palouse. The towers were valued at $18,550 each. Avista Spokesperson Anna Scarlett said the company has been putting up met towers to measure wind resources across the Inland Empire in case it needs to build a wind farm. “It’s part of our ongoing efforts to find more wind power resources,” said Scarlett. “We know we’re g...
Two WSU students who were arrested early Friday morning on probable drug charges were allowed release on their own recognizance after a first appearance later Friday in superior court. Senior Deputy Prosecutor Bill Druffel reported to the court the two were arrested after drug purchases were made by the Quad Cities Drug Task Force with the use of informants. After the alleged drug purchases, warrant searches were made of the suspects’ residences. Arrested were Joshua Garrett, 22, and Roy Benipal, 21. Arrest reports filed in the court alleged i...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Julio C. Quiroga, 28, and Kara D. Fenwick, 35, both Pullman, Dec. 2. Justin S. Kirk, 32, and Emily M.J.H. Fetcho, 29, both Pullman, Dec. 2. Gabriel F. Garcia, 27, and Hazel-Marie E. Frank, 24, both Moscow, Dec. 1. Jacob W. Sitton, 24, and Teresa J. Hulett, 29, both Washtucna, Nov. 30. WHITMAN COUNTY BUILDING PERMITS Warren Meisner, Pullman, finish basement, $10,000, Nov. 30. Shelly Richardson, Pullman, lean-to addition, $8,000, Nov. 30. Jim Redman, Palouse, gas stove, $10,120, Nov. 30. Avista Corp, Palouse, two 60-meter meteor... Full story
Palouse Cares food drive collected more than 38,000 pounds of food for area food banks Saturday. The event also included live and silent auctions that raised $25,000 dollars for local non-profit organizations and food banks. Event director Jonathon Carson said more than 1,100 volunteers in four locations on the Palouse made the single day food drive possible. Food drives took place at the Eastside Marketplace in Moscow, Zeppoz in Pullman, Rosauers in Colfax and Harvest Foods in Potlatch.... Full story
Justin King Jefferson of Colfax placed third in the Davenport Invitational wrestling tournament Saturday with a 3-1 record. Wrestling in the 182-pound bracket, he dropped to the consolation bracket after being pinned by Niko Knezovich of Reardan in the second round. Knezovich went on to top the class. Jefferson went on to defeat two Newport wrestlers on the way to topping the consolation bracket. He was the lone Bulldog to compete at Davenport because other team members lacked enough practice sessions to compete. Jefferson booked a 2-1 mark in... Full story
1. LITERATURE: Ollivanders is the name of a shop prominently featured in which series of novels? 2. PSYCHOLOGY: What unnatural fear is represented in disorder oneirophobia? 3. MOVIES: Which Alfred Hitchcock movie features a main character who is confined to a wheelchair? 4. MUSIC: Which rock-and-roll group had a hit with the song “Got to Get You into My Life”? 5. TELEVISION: What is the setting for the TV soap “Another World”? 6. ANCIENT WORLD: Who was one of the chief founders of the philosophy of Cynicism? 7. POETRY: Who wrote the words,...
1. Who was the last pitcher before Seattle’s Felix Hernandez in 2010 to have at least 30 quality starts in a season? 2. In the decade of the 1950s, a future Hall of Fame pitcher had the most losses during the 10-year span. Name the pitcher. 3. Name the last defensive lineman to be a Heisman Trophy finalist before Nebraska’s Ndamukong Suh in 2009. 4. When was the last time the Hawks played in the NBA Finals? 5. Twice in the 1980s, the NHL had Stanley Cup Finals featuring two Canadian teams. Name the teams and the years. 6. Cadel Evans won the... Full story
