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The theme for the week of April 30 at Colfax High School was Autism Awareness. FCCLA sponsored this project to help the students in the Jr/Sr High School recognize that everyone is different and that they, the students, need to be understanding of differences. The week started with lighting up classrooms and hallways with blue lights. Blue is the representative color for autism because more boys are affected with autism than girls. On April 30, FCCLA hosted an assembly to bring awareness to the...
Dreadlocks and I met on a quiet rural road in southern Louisiana early one morning back in March 2011. He was young and had hair to the middle of his back, in dreadlocks, so his nickname came easily. As I traveled America by bicycle that year, I loved to give folks names which reminded me of who they were. He returned the favor, calling me “Old Man!” He and I were together about seven days and he became like a son to me. We shared honestly about our lives ~ faith, family, friends, hopes and dreams and more. One night, around the campfire, aft...
The annual honors dessert at Garfield-Palouse High School April 28 recognized 49 students who had accumulative grade point averages of 3.0 or above. Robert Lopez, Jr., of Palouse, hardware engineer design manager at Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories, spoke to the students about setting and achieving goals. He encouraged students to consider the acronym MAGIC: M-motivation, A-assertiveness, G-gifts, I-Integrity, C-courage....
Spokane Community College recently released its winter honor roll list. Students must earn a grade average of 3.0 or higher. Area students on the roll include Megan Groom and Abigail Murphy, Colfax; Zackary Hudson, Colton; Brett Wagner and Rachael Rambo, Farmington; Danielle Wilson, Garfield; Tamra Vandyke, Malden; Chris Nilles, Oakesdale; Robert Leininger and Matthew Malakowsky, Pullman; Erin Braun, Chandra Richardson and Alyssa Roecks, Rosalia; Morgan Anderson, Steven Bowen and Sarah Lyons, St. John; and Dustin Devorak, Un...
Twenty-one students topped the third quarter honor roll at Colton High School with all-A grades. They included Savannah Chadwick, Samuel Faerber and Winnie Schultheis, seniors; Carter Dahmen and Zoe Moser, juniors; Brady Chadwick, Kendyl Druffel, Emma Schultheis, sophomores; Cambria Smetana, freshmen; Cambria Smetana, eighth grade; Erin Ankerson, Reece Chadwick, Jordyn Moehrle, Brady Stout, Luke Vining, and Rachel Willis, seventh grade. High honors students with grade averages of 3.4-3.99 grade averages included Dillon Frank, Casey Jackson,...
Primeland Cooperatives began serving customers and owners under the name CHS Primeland effective May 1. The Lewiston-based operation is a locally controlled business of CHS Inc., the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative. “As part of CHS since 1995, our board of directors has elected to adopt the name ‘CHS Primeland’ to communicate that we are part of the nation’s leading agricultural cooperative, bringing resources and market access to our communities,” said Ken Blakeman, general manager. “We are committed to helping our owners grow t...
Christine Kackman, left, Athenaeum art contest chair, presented awards to the winners of the club's art contest recently. Left to right, Brooklyn Schmidt, was third place winner, Alexandria Martinez was second place and Colfax Art Instructor Cheryl Lothspeich holds the first place painting by Kim Hinnenkamp (not pictured). Mrs. Lothspeich coordinated the art contest in her art classes and the students were asked to copy a masterpiece by a famous artist. Athenaeum honors them with a certificate...
Angela Buri grew up in Oregon City, Ore., but has come to love Whitman County. Her favorite place in the area is Klemgard Park, where she recently spent five hours one day by herself, walking, reading and enjoying the signs of spring. She and husband Blake take their children to the park to play volleyball or baseball, walk a few loops and play in the creek. Angela grew up in a pretty dysfunctional home, but found love and acceptance at her church and with her grandparents. She was a strong...
Lacrosse LaCrosse Community Pride plans a silent auction to raise funds for operation of the public section of the LaCrosse Market building. The auction will be from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the community part of the market which includes a meeting area, an area for DECCA students and the LaCrosse Branch of Whitman County Library. LaCrosse Community Pride is responsible for maintenance, utility, insurance and tax bills for that part of the property. Residents can participate by donating items for the silent auction or making a financial donation...
Endicott Endicott Community Club will sponsor a flea market Saturday, May 10, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the club lot across from the store and former bank building. Some new things have been going on at the Endicott Post Office. This past week they have ready for use new parcel lockers for those in town that get packages too big to fit in their Post Office Box. Residents will get a key to unlock the locker and be able to get packages out when the Post Office is closed. Contact Postmaster Ashlee Taylor for more information Collection time for...
Dusty Friday, May 9, Country Bible Church will perform their community good deed by cleaning the ditches along Highway 127 for the Adopt a Highway program. They will meet at the church at 8:30 a.m. Anyone wanting to participate is welcome. Lucky and Joan Myrick visited their son Mike Parkland over the weekend. He showed them the latest project, an apartment building on Queen Anne Hill in Seattle, which the construction company he works for just completed. Mike was the assistant superintendent for the project. Saturday, Di and Larry Brink took...
McDonald completes Sergeants Major course Patrick McDonald will graduate June 6 from the U.S. Army Sergeants Major academy at Fort Bliss, Texas. McDonald, who was raised in Colfax, has been in El Paso for the past nine months going through the training. He plans to return to his position as a special assistant to Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman. He is also completing his work for a doctorate degree in public policy with study on the impact of vote-by-mail in Washington and Oregon. Gar-Pal stage show Garfield-Palouse High School drama pe...
KamrynAyn Lehn was chosen Miss Tekoa at the mid March program entitled “Royal Dreams.” First Princess Rebecca Zimmerman and Princesses Madison Bogenreif and Melissa Groom will make-up the 2014-15 court. Zimmerman was also named Miss Congeniality. The ladies will host the Slippery Gulch auction and float preview May 16 before riding their newly designed float in the Lilac Torchlight and Armed Forces parade the next evening. Left to right are Groom, Zimmerman, Lehn and Bogenrei...
AT ENDICOTT SCHOOL: Monday: Hamburger w/ lettuce and tomato, fries, applesauce. Tuesday: Tacos w/ lettuce and tomato, refried beans, banana, maple bar. Wednesday: Macaroni & cheese, green salad, cucumber slice, grapes. Thursday: Chicken parmesan, noodles, corn, fruit in jello. Friday: Teriyaki chicken, rice, broccoli & cheese sauce, veggie tray, pineapple. AT GARFIELD/PALOUSE SCHOOLS: Monday: Hot dogs, chili, tossed salad, choice of two fruits. Tuesday: Hamburger, lettuce, sliced tomatoes, baked beans, choice of two fruits. Wednesday: Chicken...
God’s different purposes I was the chaplain at the hospital last week, and I met a woman of absolute faith. It was a beautiful thing to see in many ways. She had no doubts that everything was a part of God’s purpose and plans. That everything would always work out according to his will no matter what people did. She didn’t look for reasons, she accepted and believed. I don’t have that kind of faith. My life, my experiences, my journey will not allow me to believe that way. I would not be able to accept a god who inflicts children with disabil...
Thursday, May 1 Colfax & Tekoa – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Thursday. Visit the online calendar for times. Colfax – Noon – Gentle Yoga with Suzy McNeilly – Pay by the month or by the class. Friday, May 2 Colfax – 10 to 11:30 a.m. – Play & Learn – Creative play and sharing for toddlers, preschoolers and parents every Friday. Endicott, St. John & Uniontown – Storytime – Bring in the little ones for fun stories, songs and more every Friday. Saturday, May 3 Oakesdale – 11 a.m. – Ruff Revue – An ama...
The Blessing of the Quilts and Kits took place Tuesday, April 29, at Peace Lutheran Church in Colfax. The quilts and kits that the Peace Stitchers have worked so hard on for the last few months will remain in the sanctuary until they are boxed up to go to people in need. Members of the Peace Stitchers group are Ruth Bafus, Alice Barlass, Arlene Hatley, Joann Wood, Valerie Wall and Barbara Klaudt....
Sudiksha Center for Classical Arts of India will present a free dance concert Friday, May 2, at the Daggy Hall Jones Theatre at 7 p.m. Donations are welcome and all proceeds will benefit Boost Collaborative’s Child and Family Support Services which provides screening and coordination of services for children who have developmental delays....
Area students who qualified for the winter honor roll at Spokane Falls Community College in Spokane with a grade point average of 3.0 or higher include Tina Higginbotham and Anthony Mowder, Albion; Dianna Daniel, Jeremiah Roberts, Patrick Jacobs, Marc Larkin, Alexandra Boyd and Nathan Cocking, Colfax; Nicholas Cocking, Farmington; Timothy Kaeding, Lamont: Landen Morton, Palouse; Cassadi Bruce, Rayna Charles, Steven Sessions and Grace Dibiase, Rosalia; Cari Hay and Alexandria Overton, Tekoa....
Food preservation classes at library Helen Appel will conduct classes on food preservation techniques from 1 to 2 p.m. starting May 6 and continuing each Tuesday in May at the Colfax Library. She has more than 60 years of experience preserving food. She began as a girl assisting her mother and became proficient during her 54 years of marriage to Dick Appel and while cooking for their family of 10 children, 30 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. She estimates that she still cans more than 1,000 jars of food per year thanks in large part...
Dusty This past weekend was the 16th annual reunion of the women of the LaCrosse High class of 1979 at The Parsonage Bed and Breakfast. Paula Morris Meyer, Pullman; Kristal Krom Kirpes, Colton; Sheri Shaffer Hatley, Oakesdale; Doreen Broeckel Riedner, Genesee, and Denise Broeckel Kendall, Tacoma, had a project to accomplish this year. They decided to refurbish the large “L” on the hillside overlooking the town of LaCrosse with the addition of a ‘79 to commemorate their graduation year. Satur...
Lacrosse Pastime Tavern hosted a pool tournament Saturday to raise money for the Eric Binks medical fund. More than $900 was raised with more than 40 people participating. Winners were Phillip Luft and Allen Thompson, first; Don Keeney and Dana Reserve, second; and Loren Fleming and Larry Brink, third. Binks, 15-month-old son of Lyle and Cheryl Thompson Binks of LaCrosse, is now undergoing cancer treatment at Providence Sacred Heart Hospital in Spokane. An account for the boy has been set up at Umpqua Bank, and a fuel fund has been started at...
Moscow fabric artist Marcia Parish will be featured tonight, May 1, at the Colfax Arts Council’s “Meet the Artist” program at the library in Colfax. After working as a computer systems designer in Washington, D.C., for 22 years, she retired and moved with her husband, Rob, to the town where he grew up, Moscow. She purchased The Needle Nook, a yarn store that had been in Moscow since 1947. Marcia ran the business for 12 years even though at first she did not know how to knit. She works with fabric, fiber, paints, dyes, beads and many diffe...
Colfax ensemble members left to right: Nicole Wiley, Alison MacDonald, Kelly Ward, Lizzy May, Kindra Kneale, Lauren Claassen, Clare Jacobs, Holly Rimbey, Erica Eng, Katie Largent and Brittany Lewis. Eleven Colfax High School choir students who qualified for state WIAA Solo and Ensemble contest at Central Washington University in Ellensburg performed over the weekend. Friday the trio and large ensemble performed. They are Katie Largent, Lizzy May, Kindra Kneale, Kelly Ward, Erica Eng, Clare...
Kirbee, Nathan, Peggy, Rex, and Mitch Barney enjoying Disneyland. Peggy Barney was raised on a potato and wheat farm in Shelley, Idaho, and she became very familiar with siphon tubes as a kid. For the dryland farmers or city folk, siphon tubes are three to four foot long tubes of aluminum, curved to fit over the side of a ditch, preferably concrete-lined, which siphons water from the ditch to small furrows to flow through the field. Her father was also a plant breeder, and he had research...
