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In three sessions Nov. 17, one in combination with Garfield, the Palouse school board addressed a range of topics, including software for Little Sprouts, an update on class size and configuration discussions, fifth-grade co-op with Garfield and the addition of a new board member. The meeting opened with a change to the agenda. Board candidate Chris Cook’s interview would be waived, since he was the only candidate to replace seven-year member Darin Watkins, who moved to Pullman. Jens Hegg, p...
Organizers of Haunted Palouse have distributed checks to the organizations that staged the record-setting 10th year of the event in October. Net proceeds added up to $56,621.50. Palouse Community Center made $19,817 while Palouse Lions Club received $14,155 which it will split with Garfield-Palouse Athletic Club. Palouse Arts Council and Little Sprouts Daycare split $14,155 while the Palouse Chamber of Commerce received $5,622 and Whitman County Historical Society-Palouse Museum received $2,831....
Discussions are underway in Palouse on how to cover an estimated $40,000 shortfall for the 2012 budget without tapping reserve funds. The city council has been talking about a lot of options, and the finance committee will submit a list of recommendations to Mayor Michael Echanove Friday. “It’s becoming more and more difficult to reduce further, because we’re getting into critical services now – snow removal, etc.,” said Councilman Mike Milano who heads the finance committee. One suggestio...
Haunted Palouse wrapped up with another record broken. The two-weekend run, marking the 10th edition of the event, brought 4,251 haunt fans to downdown Palouse. The count was up from 4,098 last year, continuing the annual increase in attendance since the first year. At $15 per ticket, that tallies more than $63,700, although a final figure on earnings hasn’t been computed, according to Janet Barstow, one of 10 organizers of the event since the beginning. The proceeds will be divided among seven civic organizations in Palouse. A total of 35 p...
The Palouse Community Center is taking shape on Main Street in Palouse. After groundbreaking in late July, the project has progressed as organizers hoped. The building structure is in place, with windows, masonry, sidewalks and ramps coming next. “It’s going great,” said Scott Beeson, president of the community center board. “We’re having very minor problems, the kind you’d have on any construction undertaking. It’s a very smooth-flowing project.” Organizers still have $20,000 to cover costs...
The 10th annual Haunted Palouse will take place Oct. 21, 22, 28 and 29 in Palouse. The event will feature two haunted buildings and a haunted Hay Ride, among other attractions. Admission is $15. Participants must be age 12 or older. Haunted Palouse is a benefit for the Palouse Community Center, Palouse Arts Council and Little Sprounts, a nonprofit daycare....
After the red velvet cake was served, the presentations began. On top of the hill in Uniontown last Thursday evening, Sept. 22, Whitman County mayors, elected officials and other community representatives gathered at the Churchyard bed and breakfast for a quarterly roundtable. They discussed issues ranging from economic development to closed banks, the Department of Ecology and a coyote-killing dog. It was all in a night’s gathering, as officials heard first from the WSU Rural Community D...
CHS pull tab drive Colfax High School FCCLA is collecting pop tabs for the Ronald McDonald house in Spokane, a home away from home for families with children undergoing long-term medical treatment. Tabs can be off of pop cans, cat food cans, soup cans and any other type of pull-tab can. Drop tabs off at the Whitman County Library in Colfax or Colfax High School. Haunted Palouse earns $45,623 The total proceeds of the Haunted Palouse were $45,623 this year. The downtown haunted event brought in $51,969 and cost $6,345. The event annually raises...
"Put your hands on the ground! Put your hands on the ground right now!" barks a voice over the phone. This is the "scary" voice of Terry Snead, reserve officer for the Palouse Police Department and life-long stage and film actor. Snead, 59, is currently acting in the indie film, The River Sorrow, in Spokane. It’s his latest performance in a career that has spanned stage, film and commercial acting around the United States. In a phone interview from Metalline Falls Monday, Snead told the Gazette he and his wife Jennifer live part-time in M...
Horror and haunting will run rampant on the streets of Palouse this weekend when Haunted Palouse begins a four-night run. "We work hard to keep it all safe but really, really scary," said organizer Janet Barstow. A jaunt on the Haunted Hayride should get your blood curdling, following by a nice, safe walk through the Haunted Museum. Wrap this up with a visit to the old city fire station and you may not sleep for the rest of the night. "Anytime you go into a building that’s completely dark it’s going to be scary right off the bat," Barstow sai...
After receiving a $100,000 donation from the widow of Raymond Hanson, the plans for Palouse’s community center have altered. For three years, the group behind the center has participated in a series of fundraisers which netted almost $250,000 for a new community building to be built in downtown Palouse. When Lois Hanson donated $100,000, the board of directors decided to change their funding approach. “It hasn’t sped things up, but this is $100,000 we don’t have to take out a loan on. It’s huge,” said director Scott Beeson. The board of di...
Old mountain sounds will compete for air space with the sweet smell of barbecue pork at the fifth annual Palouse Bluegrass Festival in the city park Saturday. Nine soloists and groups will perform throughout the day while two pigs roast on a barbecue just feet away. Antique and craft vendors will set up in the park and thirsty music fans can visit the beer garden, in its second year on the festival scene. Last year’s event drew more than 700 people, according to Heidi Kite, festival organizer. Buffalo Death Beam, a band of musicians from P...
Bids for construction of the Palouse Community Center, a goal of many fund raising efforts over the past four years, will be opened June 21. If all goes as planned, the exterior of the building could be finished before winter, said Scott Beeson, president of the community center. However, the plan is still tentative and much depends on the bid amounts, he cautioned. Once the bids are opened, the group will decide if they want to take out a loan to cover the difference between the cost and the amount of funds now available. After four years of...
A toddler-friendly jungle gym was finished at the city park in Palouse last week. For four and a half years, a team of Palouse mothers, in step with other Palouse fund-raisers, worked to earn the $36,000 it took to bring the new addition to the park. “We’re so elated,” said Shelly Goertzen, one of the mothers involved with the project. The set of equipment measures 34 X 34 feet and comes with a “fall zone” of wood chips specifically designed to lessen the impact of falls. The installation includes three slides, two tunnels, a climbing wall, and...
Message received In January, when we heard of the requests of the School Board for the amounts of the special levies, we were very concerned and wrote a letter asking the voters of our school district to vote no on the levy proposals. Since that time many meetings have been held and community involvement in the process has been great. The School Board has agreed to reduce the levy amounts to levels that are comparable to previous levies and to reduce spending to compensate for reduced State funding. We applaud the School Board for their...
Artists honored last Thursday for their entries in the third annual H’Art of the Palouse street banner contest included, from the left, Jerry Jones, Colfax; Craig Whitcomb, Lewiston; Emily Adams, Kelan Becker, Debi Anderson, Brianna Reynolds, Mae Claypool, Jim Fitzgerald, Dick Gebhardt, all of Colfax. Unable to attend were Sarah Moore of Pullman and Lori Unger and Hannah Walker, both of Colfax. Receiving People’s Choice awards, determined by a vote of ballots in downtown business, were Adams in the adult division and Becker in the youth div...
For four and a half years, mothers in Palouse sweated away to earn the $36,000 it will take to purchase a pre-school friendly playground set for the Palouse city park. Bake sale after bake sale and silent auction after silent auction, the unsung mothers of Palouse amassed the needed funds for their toddlers to run wild. “I’m very proud of this,” said Shelly Goertzen, leader of the Little People’s Park Project. This summer, the fruit of their labor (the playground equipment, not their babies) will be constructed at the city park. The set of...
Higher calling Question: What is more important? Celebrating Thanksgiving with family and friends or taking junior to a sports practice or game? How about the same choice for Christmas day? This issue of sports practice on the holiday itself is being discussed by our school board as we speak. Our school board is trying to uphold a policy of no practices or games on holidays; they are even trying to keep Wednesday nights free. The school board is recognizing the value of time spent with family at home. What are we thinking? Historically, our...
When the streets of Palouse opened up to all manner of madness for this year’s Haunted Palouse, people were not just frightened, they were generous. Net income for the event hit $49,672, the biggest year yet for the seven-year-old Halloween fest. Paid attendance this year was 3,597, down about 100 from last year. Proceeds from Haunted Palouse goes every year to boost a handful of community organizations in the city. Recipients included Palouse Community Center, $12,418; Palouse Arts Council, $12,418; Palouse Lions Club, $9,934; City Park P...
Two Palouse area youths have donated funds from their 4H steer earnings to the Palouse Community Center, which may be ready for building by next spring. Wyatt, 11, and Payson Griner, 9, raised steers on their family farm off Highway 27 outside Palouse and sold them at the Palouse Empire Fair junior market sale. Each donated $50 of their earnings to the Palouse Community Center building project. Payson’s steer weighed in at 1,150 pounds, and Wyatt’s steer was 1,340 pounds. Their idea to donate came up, said their mother Angie Griner, when the...
Palouse, Rosalia, Tekoa to host haunted houses Palouse Haunted Palouse will come alive with all the hauntings of a scare-fest recommended for spook fans 12 and older. Date for the annual haunt in Palouse will be Oct. 23, 24, 30, and 31, starting at 7 p.m. “This is a really good scare,” promised Annie Pillers with a laugh. Two haunted houses will be screaming all night; the Boomerang Museum on Main Street and the historic Palouse jail on Whitman Street. Tickets into the chilling festival are $15 and will be sold at a booth on Whitman Str...
The eighth annual Haunted Palouse will run for four nights, Oct. 23-24 and Oct. 30-31. The event benefits the Palouse Community Center, Palouse Arts Council, the Roy M. Chatters Newspaper and Printing Museum, the Little People’s Playground Project in the park, and Palouse Lion’s community programs. For those brave enough (12 and up), the two haunted buildings will wind the unsuspecting through the Newspaper and Printing Museum and the old city fire station for an authentic “Night of Fright.” from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. Other chilling attract...
At the age of 17, Kelly Reiber of Palouse cleaned up a corner of her house, acquired a digital camera and set about making her own photography business. One business license and 10 photo shoots later, Reiber won the state FCCLA award in entrepreneurship and found herself and her Palouse FCCLA advisor on a plane to Nashville this summer for the national FCCLA conference. FCCLA stands for Family, Career, and Community Leaders of America. The state award had 24 categories a student could win. Over 100 students from Washington State went on to the...
Palouse three-year-olds will be able to launch down a new slide, ring a bell, or run their fingers along chimes on the new-fangled playground equipment soon to be built in the city park. With three slides, a set of bells, a set of chimes, and other engaging toys, the shiny new playground structure set to be built this fall is specifically designed for three to five-year-olds, said Shelley Goertzen, president of the Palouse Little People’s Park Project. It will also have easier handicap access. “I am so excited. I’m like a child getting ready...
