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Music, ice cream, pie and visiting were on the agenda Sunday afternoon for the annual Palouse Ice Cream Social to benefit the Palouse Community Building. Jens Hegg entertained the crowd with his guitar solos for the second half of the program. Crystal Bailey, Cheryl Tompkins and Ruth Cochran worked out tactics at the pie table. Volunteer Sheilagh Hallagan scooped up the ice cream for Jordan Hill of Eugene, Ore., who was in town with his family to visit his uncle and aunt, Dave Hill and Nancy Hill. A junior customer departed the scene with the... Full story
I’m sure you are wondering what the Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act really means. The Affordable Care Act is designed to accomplish several things including the expansion of Medicaid to many low-income adults, the creation of the health insurance exchange, subsidies within the exchange to help low-income and moderate-income families purchase coverage, and the individual mandate. The other provisions upheld include the coverage of children up to age 26 on their parents’ insurance, non-discrimination for pre-existing con...
Army Staff Sgt. Steven E. Garrett, a 1995 graduate of LaCrosse High School, has returned to the U.S. after being deployed overseas at a forward operating base to serve in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Sgt. Garrett is a wheeled-vehicle mechanic assigned to the 539th Transportation Company at Fort Wainwright, Alaska. He has served in the military for 15 years. He is the son of Steven and Cheri L. Garrett of LaCrosse. His wife, Olena, is the daughter of Bernadette Kock of Waitsburg.... Full story
8 years ago July 8, 1887 Hardly had the smoke cleared away from the wreck of his big hot air balloon on the Fourth before Prof. Stinson had sent east an order for a gas balloon, which he expects to have here in time to make an ascension during the progress of the county fair. On 11:30 in the evening of the 3rd, Prof. Stinson proceeded to inflate the balloon on a test run. This was done carefully by sending hot air through a pipe in which was placed a screen to prevent sparks from entering the balloon. The great pouch of canvas filled and...
Garfield-Palouse High School students who topped the honor roll for the final term with all-A grades included Heidi Jamison, Jeffrey Kent and Jonathan Kuehner, seniors; Cassie Thompson, junior; Chandler Pfaff, Taylor Redman and Kathryn Yoder, sophomores, and Jacob Arlt, Gabriel Cocking, Mitchell Jamison and Rachel Nelson, freshmen. Earning grade averages of 3.5 to 3.99 were Sara Bofenkamp, Derrick Bosch, Nathan Cocking, Melissa Johnson, Delanie Linderman and Mickaila Martin, seniors; Courtney Fleener, Wyatt Mitchell, Hannah Neibergs, Gabriel...
The annual Palouse Ice Cream Social will be Sunday at the Palouse City Park from noon to 4 p.m. The social will again feature homemade pies, Lions Club burgers, beverages and music. Members of Xenodican Club and the Round Table Club are coordinating the event which will benefit the new Palouse Community Center. Community Band of the Palouse will play from noon to 2 p.m. followed by Jens Hegg who will play acoustic blues and folk music. “I know that it’s been at least 20 years, if not 25,” said...
—Janet Leifer photos St. John High School graduates from the early 1960s gathered for a reunion at the St. John Community Building Saturday. The reunion included golden grads of 1962 plus graduates of 1961 and 1963. Graduates of the class of 1961: Front row, left to right: Ed Smith III, Karen Wilhelm Johnson, Beverly Robinson Seidi, Dan Ross. Back row, left to right: Lonnie Lynch, Gene Nelson, Ed Stoner, Bruce Smith. Graduates of the class of 1962: Front row, left to right: Judy Blackman Howard, Judi Gustin Overstreet, Marianne Ross. Back r...
Spare Parts, a versatile five-member band from Spokane, will return to the Empire Theatre in Tekoa Saturday, July 7 at 7 p.m. Their wide-ranging repertoire includes songs from pop, rock, folk and country genres and spans from the 1950s up to contemporary. Because of their tight four-part harmonies and expert instrumentation, the group performs many much-loved songs that other bands do not attempt. Joel Johnston, who plays guitar, bass, lap steel and percussion, got his start in traditional Country & Western music. Mandolin and guitar player Sco...
WSU Raptor Club members will bring birds of prey for a program at the Colfax Library Thursday, July 12, at 10:30 a.m. Everyone is invited to the free, family program sponsored by the Friends of Whitman County Library. The club is a non-profit volunteer organization founded in 1981 with the purpose of educating the public about the conservation of raptors. Special permits allow the club to take birds to a great variety of audiences such as libraries, schools, service organizations, etc., for educational purposes. This allows the club to spare th...
Artisans at the Dahmen Barn in Uniontown this month features an exhibit by the Salmon River Art Guild. It includes paintings in a wide variety of mediums: oil, acrylic, watercolor and pastels with subjects of landscape and still life. Gourd art, antler sculptures and photography will also be on display. The Salmon River Art Guild was started in 1964 and has 44 members today. The exhibit will be on display through July 29....
Thomas daughter born Thomas, Samantha Katharine, born June 18, 2012, at eight pounds, five ounces to Tyler and Rachel Chastain Thomas of Silverdale. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Mary Chastain of LaCrosse. Paternal grandmother is Marcia Thomas of Gloucester, Va. The baby joins two brothers, Toby, 2, and Griffin, 15. The family is residing in Silverdale where he is stationed with the United States Coast Guard....
Twenty-seven area students qualified for the dean’s honor list at Eastern Washington University for the spring quarter. To qualify for the honors list, an undergraduate is required to earn a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on most courses. Area honor roll students, except those who have opted to withhold their names from public release, are listed below: Colfax: Traci Hart, Jessica Carter, Victoria Benson, Alex Teade, Aby Erickson, Brittany Myers. Colton: Erin Bauer. LaCrosse: Gladys Martinez. Oakesdale: Nathan Doneen. Palouse: Elisha L...
Gazette Intern The Idaho Repertory Theatre’s summer season has been cut short this year due to construction projects in the University of Idaho’s Hartung Theater. The theater’s rigging system, as well as its stage and the flooring, are all being remodeled. “We were due for updates,” said Alexiss Turner, marketing director for the IRT. She explained that the theater had not been modified since it was constructed in 1973, almost forty years ago. Construction began May 21 and is scheduled to finish around July 20. The campus project cut down the t...
Erin Flaherty of Moscow, Idaho, daughter of Steve and Melissa Flaherty of Colbert, and Jacob Nelson of Pullman, son of Craig and Sheryl Nelson of Pullman, were joined in marriage June 9 at Red Barn Farms in Colton. The Rev. Matt McNelly of Pullman Presbyterian Church officiated. Maid of honor was Shannon Flaherty, sister of the bride, Colbert. Bridesmaids were Hannah Nelson, sister of the groom, Pullman; Sara Clark, friend of the bride, Pullman; Stephanie Hoyle, friend of the bride, Pullman; Bekki Hampton, friend of the bride, Othello, and... Full story
Carl G. Seutter and Barbara Jo Ellis were married June 23, 1962, at the Community Presbyterian Church in Oakesdale. They lived in Delaware and then Oklahoma where he was employed with General Motors at Midwest City. They then retired and lived at Hudson, Fla. After two years of RV living they returned to Oakesdale in 2002. The couple celebrated their 50th anniversary with a land/cruise trip in Alaska, accompanied by their children, Carl G. Seutter, Jr., and Carlene L. Seutter. Highlights of their Alaskan adventure were an airplane flight... Full story
Heather and Mat Smith are busy entrepreneurs who operate Smith’s Country Store in Rosalia. A graduate of Rosalia High School, Heather was raised in Rosalia. Her mother, Zana Riley Lindgren, still resides in Rosalia. Her father was the late Phillip Lindgren. Heather lived for several years in Spokane, but she and Mat are happy to be living and operating a business in her hometown. Heather graduated from Eastern Washington University where she specialized in human resource and business management. She had planned to major in computer science, b...
An open house for the new Sterling Bank branch at LaCrosse will be next Thursday, July 12. Sterling opened its new branch Monday in the former location of Bank of Whitman. The building was purchased from the FDIC by the LaCrosse Community Pride. The community group will lease the site. Next week’s open house will include door prizes, food and drinks with a special presentation to the community. Festivities run from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. The branch will be open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Aug. 3. Beginning Aug. 6, regular b...
Dusty David and Phyllis Stueckle and Ann Emerson of LaCrosse drove to Puyallup last Friday to attend the wedding of the women’s niece, Kari Aune, daughter of Norm and Barb Aune, to Eric Kelly. The traditional wedding took place in the Tacoma First Lutheran Church on Saturday. Sunday morning, they attended a brunch at the home of Norm and Barb Aune. The Stueckles stayed with Reuben and Judy Stueckle in Puyallup and Emerson stayed with her daughter, Heidi ,in Olympia. They returned home Monday. Linda Hennigar spent the weekend in Kennewick w...
Lamont Friends of the Lamont Library with Ruth Simpson at the helm conducted a book sale in the new Lamont Library June 22-24. It included a bake sale and a raffle. Gale Mann won the grand prize, an Afghan and hand crochet slippers. Proceeds will be used to finish the plumbing, electrical wiring and the framing in the building. They are planning a spaghetti feed around the end of July to further the work in hopes of opening the library in November. Grants and donations will help with the completion. Hundreds of used books of every subject were... Full story
The letter was noted at the Palouse school board meeting June 28. It was the resignation of Bev Spencer from the kitchen cook position, after 10 years. “What if we just didn’t accept it?” asked Brenda Brown, a member of the board. “It’s 10 years of wonderful experience that I had,” said Spencer. “When I look back at my past, for jobs, this was the best job I ever had. It was the best one. I consider myself very lucky to have worked in this school.” Spencer’s immediate retirement plan i... Full story
Two great-grandchildren of James A. Perkins were among the attendees at the 40th edition of the Whitman County Historical Society’s Ice Cream Social Sunday at the House. Cousins Eric Stoltz of Portland and Cindy Mueller of Salem were among celebrants at the social. Stoltz gave a short talk on memories of his childhood visits to the house where his grandparents, Sumner and Ethel, resided. They were the parents of his mother, Catherine Stoltz. He noted one of his boyhood discoveries was nettles which he encountered on the hillside above the c...
Formal recognition of the work of Whitman County Deputies, the Quad Cities Drug Task Force and the Washington State Patrol was made Thursday in the US Federal Building. Local officers played an initial role on what evolved into a federal investigation on a drug trafficking operation which has resulted in the arrest and charges in U.S. Court against 23 suspects. In a report issued yesterday, Sheriff Brett Myers said the investigation evolved from a routine traffic stop in November of 2010 which evolved into a year-long investigation by the...
Pullman police reported Thursday that they arrested the business manager of American Travel Inn, Gurinder Kaur, 24, on probable charges of theft involving credit card information obtained from customers. The report by Chief Gary Jenkins said warrant searches were conducted at the suspect’s place of business, 515 S. Grand Ave., and at her residence. Detectives allegedly recovered items which were illegally purchased by use of the credit card information. Also, Chief Jenkins reported Kaur established a fictitious company, Cougar Zip, and used i...
Kara R. Foreyt, 19, Colfax, escaped injury when she lost control of a 2002 Honda Civic on Highway 194 south of Colfax Thursday afternoon. The Washington State Patrol report said Foreyt was driving westbound at 4:14 p.m. and went onto the shoulder of the highway. She over-corrected and the Civic crossed the highway and went off the south side at mile 15.6. Caihley L. Baker, 21, Sequim, was unhurt Thursday night in a car-deer accident on Highway 26 about five and one half miles west of Colfax. A deer ran onto the highway in front of a 2003 Lexus...
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. **************** CITY DROPS JUNK CAR CASE A second challenge of the city’s attempt to enforce its junk car removal ordinance has been dropped. The city has notified Peggy Barney, who was scheduled for a hearing on the ordinance Tuesday, that it will not pursue its effort to have vehicles removed from where the Barneys have them parked on u... Full story
