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Dear Savvy Senior, Can you provide any tips on how to write your own obituary? At age 80, I am in the process of preplanning my funeral and would also like to take a crack at writing my own newspaper obit too. Still Alive Dear Alive, For many people, writing their own obituary can be a nice way to sum up their life, not to mention avoid any possible mistakes that sometimes occur when obituaries are hurriedly written at the time of death. Here’s what you should know, along with some tips and tools to help you write one. Obit Tips Before you s...
Kathleen Curry Norbeck Kathleen Curry Norbeck, 87, died Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, at her Garfield home. No services will be held. Born Oct. 21, 1928, at Flora, Ore., to William and Margaret (Hunt) Curry, she attended schools at Flora Enterprise, Ore., and graduated from the Asotin High School in 1947. She later attended college at College Place in Walla Walla for three years. She married Jerry Norbeck May 29, 1964, in Moscow, and the couple made their home in Lewiston. Kathleen was a homemaker all her life, and Jerry worked at Potlatch Forest, Inc... Full story
High school art show set at library The Rural Alliance High School art show will return to the Colfax Library the week of Jan. 9-15. The exhibit will feature more than 100 creative works of participating high school students. Students from Tekoa, Rosalia, Garfield/Palouse, Oakesdale and St. John/Endicott will participate. An art show reception to help celebrate the teens and their accomplishments will be Monday, Jan. 11, from 5 to 7 p.m. Featured student artists will speak briefly about their work. Refreshments and live music will be part of...
Thursday, Dec. 24 & Friday, Dec. 25 All Branches – WCL is closed for the Christmas Holiday. The website, digital collections and drop boxes remain available. Monday, Dec. 28 LaCrosse – 10:30 a.m. to Noon – Play and Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Monday. Colfax – Fit & Fun with Nancy Stanard – Gentle, low impact exercise class. Visit the online calendar for more information and cost. Tuesday, Dec. 29 Farmington & Rosalia – Early Learning Storytime – Reading readiness and STEAM activities for... Full story
Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday - Breakfast burrito on wheat tortilla with sausage, eggs, hash browns, fruit, donut, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday -Cook's Choice, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Community Center: Wednesday - Clam chowder, tortilla rollup, vegetable plate, dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Pullman-Pullman Senior Center: Monday - Breakfast burrito on wheat tortilla with sausage, eggs, hash browns, fruit, donut, milk, coffee or tea....
The Lincoln Middle School seventh grade math team in Pullman placed first in the statewide competition "Math is Cool." From left are Om Sahaym, Jay Sahaym, Shelley Yu and Meghan Dutta. They qualified by winning the regional round in Spokane Nov. 6 and then topped other regional qualifiers in the "Math is Cool Masters" Dec. 5 at Moses Lake. Competition included several individual and team events. Mindy Morgan, instructor in the WSU Math Department, was coach of the team. Yu resides in...
Tekoa High School art student Tashanna Schneider and teacher Kay Kinghorn display art students’ mixed media weaving and glazing work which will be on display at the Tekoa Library during the holiday break. More than 15 works make up the display....
Billy Swank of Colfax played his drums Dec. 11 for the 30th annual Whitman County Developmental Series Holiday Dance. Approximately 100 people attended. Music was provided by Susan Prouty, former Colfax resident who is now a deejay in Spokane. Swank picked up on the recorded numbers and kept tempo on the drums. The dance was at the Public Service Building this year because of the remodeling underway at the fair building....
8 years ago The Commoner Dec. 19, 1890 The city council surprised itself Monday evening. During the day the marshal went around to the councilmen and stated that if they were ready for a meeting the mayor would be glad to be notified. They were all ready, and when Mr. Perkins called them to order, the full council consisting of Bellinger, Waite, Metz, Hamilton and Warner were present. The fire and water committee was instructed to purchase a car of coal for the use of the engine company. The report of treasurer DePledge was read and approved...
Meet Arielle Lawed, Colfax Arielle and Aaron Lawhead with Asher, 4, and Addie, almost 6. Arielle Lawhead, a Montana native, grew up in Whitefish and graduated from Whitefish High School. Her family was active, so she learned to fish, hunt, hike and bike. Skiing started when she was two years old. Following high school, she moved to Phoenix, Ariz., and started working so that she could establish residency after a year and begin college there as an in-state student. She started working for Wells F...
Dusty Two weeks ago, David and Phyllis Stueckle attended a funeral service in Bremerton for Phyllis's sister, Corrine Spitzer, who died Nov. 11. Her husband, LeRoy, had died the week before on Nov. 5. Also attending the service were Corrine's siblings Ann Emerson and John Aune. The Stueckles went on to Seaside, Ore., where they spent several days with Rueben and Judy Stueckle. Denise Kendall, Tacoma, arrived at the home of her father, Oscar Broeckel, Saturday where she will spend a good part of her break from teaching at the University Place...
Helped by Grandmother Ann, a young boy tallies his purchases at the Grandmother's Shop during the Christmas Joy for Children event. A small group of youngsters rests after purchasing their goods at the Thrifty Grandmother's Shop Monday. Thrifty Grandmothers upped the Christmas spirit in Colfax Monday with their Christmas Joy for Children event. The grandmothers hosted children aged 4-12 and provided them $5 coupons to purchase items for their families. Grandmother Viv Nafziger said the first... Full story
Whitman County sheriff’s log for Dec. 16 lists responses to six accidents on county roads. A Colfax ambulance crew responded to a report of an accident at the intersection of the Shawnee and Albion-Parvin roads at 3:26 p.m. The driver was transported to Whitman Hospital after complaining of a headache. Other accidents on the log included one at 6:47 a.m. at the intersection of Almota and Upper Union Flat roads; one at 9:26 a.m., on the Green Hollow Road; a slide-off at 9:42 a.m. at the Albion Road-Highway 195 intersection; one at 10:15 a.m. a...
Tech Trek 2016 got its start on the Palouse this fall, from an unexpected source. Bev Pearce, quilter and librarian at the Palouse branch of the Whitman County Library, had created a Halloween-themed quilt she wanted to contribute to a worthy cause. When she came upon a clipping of an Aug. 20, 2015, Gazette article about local girls who attended Tech Trek Camp, she found her cause. Thanks to the cooperation of McLeod's Palouse Market, which displayed the quilt and collected the raffle money, the local community was able to learn about the camp... Full story
Standing by Main Street Dec. 18, Santa Claus spreads Christmas cheer as he waves to passing cars....
The High Tea in Colfax Saturday afternoon brought a capacity crowd with each table full. Above, happy attendees work their way down the food and drink table. Scones, crumpets, gingerbread, sugar plums, cream puffs, champagne cocktails and five different high class teas made for an elegant setting at The Center Saturday for the Chamber's Christmas High Tea. Nearly 50 people packed The Center for the event, including two young girls. Chamber President Nancy Cochran said the event evolved from the...
MARRIAGE LICENSES Tyler Alexander Snook, 22, Pullman, and Janae Nicole Schultz, 22, Lake Stevens, Dec. 8. Brad Mathew Druffel, 42, and Mary Priscilla Palmer, 32, both Colton, Dec. 14. Jason Jordan Bishop, 35, and Tawni Lynn Winters, 32, both Pullman, Dec. 21. Chulhee Kang, 58, and Kyung Chi Sun, 58, both Pullman, Dec. 22. Kyle Christopher Farar, 38, and Elizondo Evelyn Vazquez, 35, both Pullman, Dec. 22. COLFAX BUILDING PERMITS Jim Douglas, two stage furnace at 408 N. Deanway, $4,500, Dec. 9. Church of the Nazarene, install gas furnace at 1103...
Saving the planet has never been so easy. The Paris climate talks concluded in a rousing round of self-congratulation over an agreement that, we are told, is the first step toward keeping Earth habitable. If generating headlines and press releases about making history were the metric for anything, Paris might be as consequential – if misbegotten – as advertised. The fact is that Paris is very meta. The agreement is about the agreement, never mind what's in it or what its true legal force is – namely, nil. Paris is a legally binding agree... Full story
On Dec. 12, Montana Congressman Ryan Zinke patiently waited two hours in line with 70,000 volunteers at Arlington National Cemetery to collect wreaths and secure them to headstones. Thousands of others across our nation joined those at Arlington honoring soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen who died while serving America. In all, nearly one million wreaths were laid this year. Wreaths Across America is a privately funded charity that accepts no government money. As part of the project, truckers volunteer to haul the wreaths, and veterans and...
Lop-Sided stories My husband Dale and I were at all four trail meetings; as a matter of fact, Joe Schmick wanted Dale on the committee and Dale applied. The Parks Department made sure he was not chosen. Not only have you forgotten who your subscribers are but you have presented some of the most lop-sided, non-factual reporting I have ever seen. Ted Maxwell said it at the first meeting in Tekoa, and I said it at every meeting thereafter, “When did the trail open?” Everyone glosses over the fact that the bill would have passed but for the err...
Twenty-four years ago, Democrat Edwin Edwards – a man who could have come out of central casting as the corrupt politician – was nevertheless running for another term as the governor of "let the good times roll" Louisiana. The Republicans had managed to go bonkers and choose none other than former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke to run against him. But Duke was too extreme even for the far-right members of the GOP establishment, so just before Election Day, they distributed a bumper sticker: "Vote for the Crook. It's Important." The crook won....
DEAR EDITOR: I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, ‘If you see it in THE SUN it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a Santa Claus? VIRGINIA O’HANLON. VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours man is a mere insect... 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. FATAL DOG ATTACK ON W. HILL Colfax Police are investigating a report of a fatal dog attack on the west hill of Colfax. Turbie, a 14-year-old Blue Heeler/Border Collie cross, was found dead by his owner, Georgie Leinweber, near the end of her driveway at about 10 a.m. Saturday morning. The dog had sustained extensive wounds to both ends of his bo...
Sam Mellor of Colfax, a senior defensive lineman for Southern Virginia University, was selected to be a member of the Stars & Stripes team which played a team of all-stars from private universities in Mexico at Tijuana Saturday in the Tazon de Estrellas (Bowl of the Stars). Southern Virginia, located in Buena Vista, was one of 27 NCAA division three teams represented on the Stars & Stripes team which won Saturday’s game 15-14. A member of the 2010 class at Colfax High School, Mellor is m...
Reggie Jones took flight last Wednesday in his match with Ky Adams of Waitsburg. Jones eventually took the win in the 145-pound class. Colfax Dec. 16 hosted a mix and match meet for area teams in three rounds of competition on two mats. The meet also honored the four seniors on the team this year, Mitch Barney, Brian DeYoung, Reggie Jones and Nick McAdams. DeYoung was not able to participate because of an injury. The meet totaled 44 matches over the three rounds with the Bulldogs and... Full story
