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GARFIELD — The tree is down, decorations packed away, and gifts have found their new homes. Due to Christmas and New Year’s Day falling on Wednesdays, the holiday season seemed extended this year. But, as they say, all good things come to an end. This week, the routine returns: Kids and adults are back to school and work. Garfield Librarian Andrea Mills went out of her way to fill the January calendar with several interesting programs. The weekly story time program, every Wednesday from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m., uses the magic of “songs, stori...
Colfax Thursday, Jan. 9 Ham, scalloped potatoes, salad bar, fruit, oatmeal butterscotch cookies Monday, Jan. 15 Homemade pizza, salad bar, fruit, german chocolate cake Colton Wednesday, Jan. 15 Fiesta taco salad, chips, cheese, olives, tomatoes, salsa, sour cream; sliced peaches; churros Palouse Wednesday, Jan. 15 Meatloaf, roasted red potatoes, vegetables, pears, ice cream Pullman Friday, Jan. 10 Ham, scalloped potatoes, green salad, fruit, oatmeal butterscotch cookies Tuesday, Jan. 14 Fiesta taco salad, chips, cheese, olives, tomatoes,...
Pullman Regional Hospital Hank Miles Peterson, a boy, was born Dec. 31, 2024 to parents Eric and Breanne Peterson, of Clarkston. He weighed 8 pounds, 9.7 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are keith and Jami Peterson, of Renton and Michele Peterson, of Tucson, Ariz. Maternal Grandparents are John and Annette Heston, of Clarkston. Caden Alexander Thompson, a boy, was born Jan. 2, 2024, to parents Connor and Adrianne Thompson, of Pullman. He weighed 8 pounds, 9 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are Tom and Sue Thompson, of Cheyenne, Wyo. And Kirk and...
8 Years Ago From the Colfax Gazette, Friday, January 12, 1900 TRIALS OF SOLDIERS Colfax Boys in the Philippines with Packs Makes Their Bones Ache. Frank Blachley of Company C, Thirty-fifth United States Volunteer Infantry, has written to a Colfax friend, detailing some of the joys of soldier lifein the Philippines. Under date of Cabiao, November 21, he says, in part: “I am well and fattening like a pig here. Sooon after arrival at Manila we boarded a train and rode 35 miles to San Fernando, where we staid for two days. Then we commenced a d...
COLFAX – The Bank of Eastern Oregon/Washington has announced its continuation of their Mascot Card program with Colfax High School. The programs generates $.05 per transaction performed with each school mascot card to the school’s Associated Student Body (ASB) program. “The school mascot cards provide much needed extra funding for these student body programs,” said Becky Kindle, EVP & Chief Operations Officer. In 2024, it is reported that the program contributed over $7,261 to the participating high schools, according to a press release...
ROSALIA - Locals Ben and Alyssa Hale have expanded their coffeehouse "Hole in the Ground," into a café moving into the former Red Brick Café. The couple lived in Malden before the town burned down in the 2020 Babb Road Fire and moving to Rosalia gave them the chance to expand the business they have had since 2001. "We were living in a camper when we bought the other coffee shop," Alyssa Hale said, noting they were in process of rebuilding when they purchased a house in Rosalia. Alyssa Hale s...
PULLMAN - The first Whitman County baby of 2025 was born at 8:02 a.m., on Thursday, Jan. 2. Caden Thompson, son to Adrianne Griebel-Thompson and Connor Thompson, was welcomed by Pullman Regional Hospital Dr. Huong Trinh of Moscow/Pullman, weighing 8 pounds, 9 ounces and measuring 20.25 inches long. His mother Adrianne is an Assistant Professor in the School of Family and Consumer Sciences at the University of Idaho and his father Connor is an Administrative Law Judge for the State of...
Pullman Regional Hospital Layla Grace Helbling, a girl, was born Dec. 24, 2024 to parents Savannah and Jake Helbling, of Moscow. She weighed 7 pounds, 3 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are Jeff and Carla Helbling, of Moscow. Maternal Grandparents are Jon and Tiffany Scripter, of Moscow. Layla joins sisters Ayah, 3, and Kyla 18 months, at home. Sylvie Louise Hartz, a girl, was born Dec. 26, 2024, to parents Drew and Hannah Hartz, of Palouse. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are Bill and Julie, of Ritzville. Maternal...
Colfax Thursday, Jan. 2 Baked potato bar with chili, cheese, bacon bits, onions, sour cream; salad bar; fruit; birthday cake Monday, Jan. 6 Beef pasta tray bake, salad bar, pears, strawberry cheesecake Colton Wednesday, Jan. 8 Closed, New Year’s Palouse Wednesday, Jan. 8 Beef barley soup, green salad, fruit, brownies Pullman Friday, Jan. 3 Baked potato bar, chili, cheese, bacon bits, onions, sour cream; broccoli; fruit; birthday cake Tuesday, Jan. 7 Beef pasta tray bake, vegetables, pears, brownies...
PULLMAN — The United Way of Whitman County (UWWC) is hosting a cocktail and appetizer fundraising event from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 10, at the Lewis Alumni Center, Grimes Way and Southeast Olympia Avenue. The event will feature spirits including a cocktail and mocktail, wines from Merry Cellars, a handcrafted IPA from Palouse Brewing Company and hors d’oeuvres and desserts from La Patissiere Etc. “We are so excited to bring our community and volunteers together to the fundraising event of the season to benefit those in need,...
TEKOA - Family and friends of Jamie Ann Wilson are turning the tragic loss of a loved one into an opportunity to celebrate her life and legacy. They are planning a future scholarship for Whitman County students pursuing a career in the Culinary Arts. The scholarship is having funds raised with t-shirts which feature Wilson's original artwork and state "Justice for Jamie." Wilson, 25, was found deceased due to strangulation in her Pullman residence on March 26, 2024. Sammie Williams, a friend of...
We’re coming into the middle point of senior year this week I picked out some local seniors including myself, and looked back at who we were our freshman year to now and who we have grown into. Keely a senior at Rosalia High School, “Looking back to freshman year I’ve done a complete 180. I have always been an over achieving student who though one bad grade would ruin my GPA and my life would be over. Now I’m in my second year of running start taking sophomore/ junior college level classes; I have learned it’s not so much about passing i...
Pullman Regional Hospital Alborz Saadat, a boy, was born Dec. 18, 2024, to parents Everest Moaddab and Ebrahim Saadat of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Mohammad and Fatemah Saadat of Tehran, Iran. Maternal grandparents are Ali and Forough Moaddab, of Sari, Iran. He joins his sister, Dena, 7, at home in Pullman....
GARFIELD –– Towns like ours are places where people tend to go about their daily routine without much fanfare. They support their community, strive to be good neighbors, and, on the surface, seem to have pretty interchangeable stories. Until you begin to have a conversation with them and discover that, almost to a person, they’ve done something or been somewhere that is most worthy of hearing. What I’m about to share fits in that category. It is the story of Pat Pettichord. A few years ago, Reverend Marty Masten shared with me a seven-p...
ROSALIA - Residents packed the main gymnasium at Rosalia High School on Dec. 18 for the 2024 Winter Concert. The hour-long performance kicked off with youngsters singing Christmas songs and culminated with the high school band performing for the first time in two years. Teacher Payton Ritchy directed the program featuring students from all grade levels. The youngest students sang "Snowman Can't March" and "Snowman Jump," while first- and second-graders sang "Dancer and Prancer." Third- and...
COLFAX –– County Commissioners moved signing a 2025-2026 joint cooperative agreement with the local agricultural burn permitting program contract with several conservation districts to Monday, Dec. 30. During the Monday, Dec. 16, regular business meeting commissioner Swannack brought forth the tentative contract signing stating that he thought they needed to do each district separately rather than as one motion. Commissioners discussed multiple districts with more than one document to sign including Palouse Conservation District, Rock Lake Con...
COLFAX - During the Thursday, Dec. 19, Port of Whitman County commissioners meeting, staff announced a loan approval to fund airport improvements. The $1.2 million Community Aviation Revitalization Board loan from the state Department of Transportation will be used to pay for utility improvements, site development and hangar construction at the Port of Whitman Business Air Center on Colfax Access Airport Road. The upgrades supports general aviation airports with becoming self-sustainable,...
ROSALIA —The Rosalia Boy Scouts are hosting an Eagle Scout Court of Honor at 6 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 29 at the Rosalia Community Church, West 3rd Street. The court of honor will honor the latest Eagles Scouts including Austin Goyke, Gabe Morgan, Isaac Fuchs and Riley Gehring. The public is invited and welcome to celebrate and honor the Eagle Scouts....
Pullman Regional Hospital Olivia Mai Phung, a girl, was born Dec. 7, 2024, to paretns Victoria Ann Huynh and Anh The Phung, of Pullman. She weighed 6 pounds, 7 ounces. Victoria joins sister Aliza Huynh Phung, almost 3, at home. Mary Roth, a girl, was born Dec. 6, 2024, to parents Celia and Matthew Roth, of Troy. She weighed 7 pounds, 7 ounces. Paternal Grandparents are James and Cathy Roth, of Elba, Ala. Maternal Grandparents are Daniel and Ellen Oster, of Deary. Mary joins sisters Elyce, 7 and Anna, 1 and brothers Luke, 5 and Wesley, 3, at...
DUSTY -The cemetery held its third wreath-laying ceremony for the National Wreaths Across America Day, on Saturday, Dec. 14. The remembrance honored 23 veterans interred in the cemetery. "Thank you to those family members and Dusty community members for supporting this cause to remember the fallen, honor those that serve and their families, and teach the next generation the value of freedom," said local coordinator Kathryn Vogler....
COLFAX –– The deadline to join in on one of two mission trips to Puerto Penasco, Mexico, and Costa Rica has passed as of Dec. 15, however there may still be space available for those interested. Local Colfax pastor Michael Birnbaum is the director of Well Child International and founder of International Service Learning, who will be taking mission trip participants to assist in a variety of community projects, with a host of fun activities to experience. The organizations often seek health professionals to assist with neighborhood clinics, door...
After the the monthly Garfield Community Luncheon, last Thursday, Hollis Jamison (who, along with his lovely wife, Helen, is a local hero) and I were turning down the thermostat and locking the door of the former American Legion Hall, where lunch had been served. When we finished, we stopped at a display of various black and white photographs of Post 24’s history. One of them, “The Boys of Whitman County,” showed about two dozen military photographs and brief bios of men-boys, really-who’d served during World War One. Other photos appeared to b...
STEPTOE - Residents gathered at the Steptoe Cemetery on National Wreaths Across America Day to honor and remember those who have served Saturday, Dec. 14. Cherry Alice Van Tine opened the ceremony honoring those who are currently serving, followed by a prayer by Pastor Bob Ingalls for those who paid the ultimate price, families facing loss and those wounded in service. Cadet Kaitlyn MacDougall and Jeremiah Fassler presented the colors and the National Anthem was sang by David Buri. "Wreaths...
TEKOA - The School District held its first band concert in years Wednesday, Dec. 11, with students utilizing the music program that started this year. Superintendent Mike Jones said it has been about five years since the school has been able to put on a concert. Principal Yolanda Bone said the middle school band performed two songs including 'A Christmas Chant,' and 'Holiday Sampler." Up next was the high school band performing 'O Little Town of Bethlehem' and 'Deck'n the Halls,' a jazz version...
ENDICOTT –– A little light rain would not keep the festivities or Santa away on Saturday, Dec. 14, when the Endicott Gun Club held their annual celebrations. The club hosted another year of celebrations with over 30 decorated trees and an abundance of decorations inside of the clubhouse. After the annual fireworks show at 6 p.m., the several dozen children who came with their parents and family were treated when Santa pulled up to take photos with the youths and hear what they wanted for Chr...
