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It started as a 10-year learning plan with his mother and father to take over the family business. It lasted two years, until Frank Lawhead was killed in an accident on the job Nov. 12, 2002. Aaron Lawhead, his then 26-year-old son, was thrust into taking over Empire Disposal, based in Colfax. The upheaval was part of a journey that included the sale of the business, Lawhead’s return to Arizona where he went to college, and his later second return to Colfax with a wife and two children. He moved...
Whitman County Gazette, December 25, 2014 AT WHITMAN HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER Schuerman boy, born Dec. 15 at seven pounds, one ounce, to Shelley and Paul Schuerman. Paternal grandparents are David and Merrie Schuerman. Maternal grandparents are Curtis and Janet Feldner....
*For full obituaries, please see the Weekly Pages section for this week's paper. John “Jack” W. Hardgrove __________________________ The funeral services for Elbert Ira Branch, 91, native resident of Albion, were Friday morning at Kimball Funeral Home in Pullman with vault interment at the Albion Cemetery. Mr. Branch died Dec. 15, 2014, at his home in Albion. Born July 3, 1923, in Albion to John and Effie Bridges Branch, he grew up in Albion and was a member of the 1941 class at Albion High School, the last class to graduate from the sch... Full story
Jacob Love of Garfield and Madeline Cillay of Pullman were among 518 students who qualified for the dean's list for fall term at Eastern Oregon University in LaGrande with a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a minimum of 12 hours of graded coursework....
All 14 branches of Whitman County Library close at 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 31, and will be closed Thursday, Jan. 1, for New Years. Due dates for library materials have been extended in anticipation of the closure and no late fines will be charged for these days. Drop boxes will remain open at all locations for returned items. Access to the library’s Wi-Fi, catalog, downloadable audio and eBooks, and other online resources including Chilton’s Auto Repair are available by visiting the library’s website: www.whitco.lib.wa.us....
England has been a great source of antiques for generations of Americans. US military personnel have often been knowledgeable buyers since they have the time to get acquainted with the market, and they are able to have antiques shipped to the US when they move if they do not exceed the weight limit assigned by the military. Since many British people grew up with antiques, they are perhaps not so fond of them as Americans. According to British HGTV, the stylish option is to have a home with...
Tekoa High School teams from the art class, FCCLA and FFA competed in a gingerbread house bakeoff at Eclairs Coffee. The event was put on by the Healthy Tekoa Coalition....
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Wednesday, December 24 & Thursday, December 25 All branches will be closed, but our online resources and wifi access remain available. Friday, December 26 Colfax — 3:30 — 7:30 p.m. —Sears Academy of Dance — of children's dance classes. Check the online calendar or call 1-887-733-3375 for specifics about classes and costs. Saturday, December 27 Colfax & Rosalia — Open regular hours — Check out a movie to help your family pass the time between holidays. Monday, December 29 Colfax — 10 a.m. — Fit and Fun — Nancy Stanard leads this low impact c...
Dear Savvy Senior, How does one go about appealing Medicare when they won’t pay for something that has been covered in the past? Denied Senior Dear Denied, If you disagree with a coverage or payment decision made by Medicare, you can appeal, and you’ll be happy to know that around half of all appeals are successful, so it’s definitely worth your time. But before going that route, talk with the doctor, hospital and Medicare to see if you can spot the problem and resubmit the claim. Some denials are caused by simple billing code errors by the d...
Editor's Note: The following column was originally published in 2010. I have a problem with my spam filter: It sometimes blocks e-mails from Nigerian bankers who want to transfer large sums of money to my checking account, from people who are willing to give me access to dangerous narcotics and from scantily clad women selling drugs designed to make me more of a man. (By "more of a man," I'm not saying the drugs would make me even more likely to leave the toilet seat up or to refuse to ask for directions. I'm saying the pills would enhance my... Full story
Fire crews were still on the scene Tuesday morning after battling a blaze which destroyed this house on the Walla Walla Highway west of Colfax. Residents of the house, the Paul Bilderbacks, had left the previous morning for a holiday visit on the west side of the state. The house was the former long-time residence of Joe and Theola Gray.... Full story
8 years ago The Commoner Dec. 27, 1889 The contractors who are to construct the new iron bridge across the South Palouse River, at the south end of Main Street, are in the city, and will commence work at once. The piers, etc., of the new bridge are at the depot. About three inches more of snow fell on Saturday night and sleighing was never better than at present. Sunday and Christmas were spent by a great many of our people in sleigh riding and every available sleigh and cutter in the city was in use. A jolly crowd of young people from...
Seasons Greetings To All My Democrat Friends: Please accept with no obligation, implied or implicit, my best wishes for an environmentally conscious, socially responsible, low-stress, non-addictive, gender-neutral celebration of the winter solstice holiday, practiced within the most enjoyable traditions of the religious persuasion of your choice, or secular practices of your choice, with respect for the religious/secular persuasion and/or traditions of others, or their choice not to practice religious or secular traditions at all. I also wish y...
Terry Nealey, the LaCrosse High School graduate who is now a state representative for the 16th legislative district, has announced his retirement from practicing law at Dayton, according to a report in last week’s edition of the Dayton Chronicle. Now 67, Nealey is a member of the Nealey and Marinella law firm in Dayton. When Nealey was elected to the state House of Representatives in 2009, he followed in the footsteps of his father, the late Darwin Nealey of LaCrosse who represented Whitman County as a state legislator from the ninth d... Full story
Concessionaires Leo and Teri Haas, who continue to operate the Snake River Bar and Grill through the winter, renewed their contract for 2015. Also, Boyer Park and Marina workers will be busy over the winter, according to a report released at the Dec. 18 Port of Whitman County meeting. Work during the winter months include raking leaves, painting and paint touchups, replacing some of the fire pits in the park, replacing the horseshoe pit and maintaining the docks....
Matthew Wysock, LaCrosse High School science teacher, was recently awarded a $420 classroom grant from Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE), Spokane, the state’s only non-union professional teacher association. Wysock plans to use the funds to purchase a radio transmitter, tracking program and programming cables to help students track the school’s high altitude weather balloon’s altitude, velocity and position. The balloon is used in the science program’s near-space engineering project...
It’s that time of year when we count our blessings. In America, they are abundant, especially this year. For starters, the unemployment rate is down from 7 percent last December to 5.8 percent. Washington State mirrors the national average. Housing starts, retail sales and our gross domestic product are all up from last year, signs of an improving economy. Since consumer spending drives economic growth, low interest rates have helped. Home mortgages and auto loans hover in the 3 to 4 percent range. Contrast that to Russia, where interest r...
More than a hundred years ago, a young girl wanted to know if Santa really existed. Her friends were telling her Santa Claus was not real. So, she wrote her newspaper to get the truth. This is the famous reply from the editor, Francis Church. Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been afflicted by skepticism in 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 uni... Full story
Billy Swank of Colfax stands in front of his newly designated parking space in front of Colfax City Hall. Swank is employed as a janitor for the police department and conducts a city hall recycling project. The parking space, which is in an odd piece of space that can't be used by a vehicle, will accommodate the three-wheel bicycle which Swank rides for most of the year for his recycling projects.... 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. CENTER PROJECT ADVANCES In a report to Colfax City Council Dec. 15 on the progress of the Center project, Whitman County Library Director Kristie Kirkpatrick said the project to date had received $161,719 in revenue. The Center has also received $13,300 in in-kind donations. Kirkpatrick said the budget goal of the project had been set at...
The Senate Intelligence Committee spent roughly $50 million on its investigation into the CIA and apparently couldn’t find Michael Hayden’s phone number. The committee portrays Gen. Hayden, the former CIA director, as a liar who deceived Congress about the agency’s interrogation program, yet the committee couldn’t be bothered to interview him. That’s because the committee, led by California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, didn’t bother to interview anyone. The committee didn’t want to include anything that might significantly complicate it...
Enhanced interrogation techniques, or even worse, EITs — why can’t they just say “torture” as the apologists try to pretend that the CIA and our post-9/11 leaders didn’t shame America? Instead, they come up with sterile terms to describe their monstrous policies. Another one is the term that two psychologists created to describe the state of mind they wanted from U.S. captives subjected to that torture: “learned helplessness.” The intent of their brutal interrogation tactics was to create a belief by prisoners that it was pointless to...
James Hollingshead of the SJE Eagles goes up for an attempt to block Tyler Thurston of the Vikings in the SE league round Saturday night at St. John. Garfield-Palouse ran over two more opponents this week to increase their record to 7-0 overall and 3-0 in league. The senior-dominated team with veteran coach Tim Coles has won by wide margins each time out so far in 2014-15. Garfield-Palouse 73, Touchet 22 Tyler Thurman led the Vikings with 17 points while Mitch Jamison had 10 rebounds as Gar-Pal...
Kasey Johnson of the Bulldogs puts a block on Cort Ruzika of the Broncos early in the boys game Friday at Colfax. Keith Gfeller is at left for the Bulldogs. Colfax Bulldogs rolled out two wins in the NE-South over the weekend to finish the first round at 3-1. The Bulldogs booked an explosive win over the LRS Broncos Friday night on the home court and then booked a solid win over the Tekoa/Rosalia Timberwolves Saturday night in the first NE league hoop meeting at Rosalia. Score for the win over...
