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Dynamic rhythm, ethereal melody, spoken word and stunning choreography will entwine in a visceral, visual, musical journey - “The Way Home” as Portland Taiko performs at 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 20, at WSU’s Jones Theatre in Daggy Hall. The concert by the award-winning Asian American drum ensemble is presented by WSU Performing Arts....
Palouse Library plans five different story times this week to share the new books purchased with funds raised by the Turkey Leg, a fundraising run/walk done Thanksgiving mornings in Palouse. In 2005, local business owner and library supporter Tiana Gregg spearheaded the first walk for children’s books at the Palouse branch. Remaining story sessions this week include today, Thursday, April 5, at 4 p.m. and Friday, April 6, at 2 and 4 p.m. Guest storytellers include Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove, Gregg and three former Palouse l...
Teens can come to the St. John Library Friday, April 6, at 3 p.m. to make duct tape wallets in pink, zebra and flame patterns. Games, computers and snacks will be provided! The library’s fourth annual penny drive runs until April 14. All those pennies support the library. The library’s spotted pig also accepts nickels, dimes, quarters and dollars. Quilter Celia Boland comes to the Colfax Library tonight Thursday, April 5, at 7 p.m. as part of Meet the Artist. Celia specializes in a variety of textile arts from landscape and crazy quilts, to...
The next Palouse River Counseling parent enrichment class will begin April 11 and run every Wednesday for four weeks from 1 to 3 p.m. The class is free for parents with children up to school age. Contact Dennis Fritz or Michelle Miller at Palouse River Counseling....
Alssalem, Rhma Mohamed Ahmad, was born March 14, 2012, at nine pounds, five ounces, to Mohamed Alssalem and Azez Falghoush of Pullman. Paternal grandparents are Mubarka Alqadsi and Akmad Alssalem of Sabha, Libya. Maternal grandparent is Aish Naser of Houn, Libya. The baby joins brother Ahmad, 5. Robertson, Baylie Jolee, was born March 22, 2012, at eight pounds, five ounces, to Jason and Sonja Robertson of Albion. Paternal grandparents are Jolene Boyle of Steptoe and Neal Robertson of St. John. Maternal grandparents are Gaylan and Suzanne White...
Gabriel Aeschliman of Colfax was one of 1,371 students named to Biola University’s fall dean’s list with a grade point average of 3.6 or higher while enrolled in 12 of more credit units. Students are also required to have a cumulative grade point average of at least a 3.2....
Palouse Habitat for Humanity’s annual fundraiser “Beans & Jeans” will be Saturday, April 21, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Toyota of Pullman with a live and silent auction, barbecue dinner and music by the bluegrass group Forgotten Freight. Admission will be $40. Palouse Habitat plans to build a second house in Uniontown this year....
Shelley Calissendorff of Pullman, community coordinator for PAX, a non-profit foundation which provides a US high school and home stay program for students from more than 40 different countries, is now interviewing families in Colfax who are interested in participating by hosting one of the students. PAX students are between 15 and 18, speak English and have insurance coverage and spending money. Placement of three to four students at Colfax High School has been approved by principal Gary Weitz. For more information call Calissendorff at...
Week of April 9 - 13 At Tekoa School: Monday: Chicken pattie on WG bun, french fries, fruit/veggie choices Tuesday: Pizza, tossed salad, veggie choices, strawberries Wednesday: Beef pattie on a WG bun, potato wedges, fruit/veggies choices Thursday: Teriyaki chicken, rice, tossed salad, fruit mix, WG roll Friday: Burrito, cheese sauce, tossed salad, applesauce cups, bread sticks At St. John/Endicott School: Monday: Pizza, green salad, pineapple Tuesday: Lasagna, green salad, bread sticks, peaches Wednesday: BBQ pork rib sandwich, chips,...
Friends and family gathered at the Colton Gun Club for the wedding Oct. 1, 2011, of Alys Joleen Durfey of Pullman and James Leon Siedman of Dusty. Parents of the bride are Jim and Jude Durfey of Pullman, and parents of the groom are Ellen Edd, Poulsbo, and John Siedman, Mindanao, Philippines. The vintage 1930s format brought many in costume. The prohibition sensitive social hour was raided by two Keystone Cops, friends Zach Kincaid and Kris Bofto, in uniform with siren, who escorted two surprised, beer drinking guests out of the establishment....
At a recent pastor’s conference the missionary speaker told us that the gospel of Christ first came to China in 1807 through great teachers like Hudson Taylor, Robert Morrison, and others. After 150 years of missionary activity by 1949, the teaching of the gospel of Christ harvested four million souls saved! During the 60-year communist reign of Mao-Te-Sung and his great persecution the number of Christians actually multiplied to 100 million! Therefore, it is a missionary saying that Mao-Te-Sung was the greatest evangelist in the history of C...
Council on Aging and Human Services announced that they will participate in the national 2012 March For Meals campaign. Volunteer participants will be encouraged to help put nutritious food on the table of senior citizens by participating in a pledge march April 28 in support of Council on Aging & Human Services’ Meals on Wheels and senior nutrition program. All money raised will remain in Whitman County and will be used to provide meals to homebound seniors and seniors that might otherwise be socially isolated. The march will be conducted simu...
Caitlin Joy Carroll and Ian James Lyon were married July 16, 2011, in an outdoor evening ceremony held on the grounds of the Mountain Meadow Inn near Helena, Mont. The Rev. Robyn Barnes, friend of the groom’s family, was the officiant. Bill and Dana Carroll, Colfax, escorted their daughter and gave her hand in marriage. The groom was escorted by his parents, Christine Dickinson and Matt Lyon of St. Ignatius, Mont. The grass pathway to the ceremony site, situated in a grove of trees, was decorated with large white bows and turquoise lanterns o...
Locations for a state and federal emergency food distribution: Wednesday, April 25: Palouse Community Center, 1 to 3 p.m.; Rosalia Community Baptist Church, 9 to 11 a.m.; St. John Methodist Church, 9 to 10 a.m. Thursday, April 26: Malden/Pine City, Town Hall, 8 a.m. to 10 a.m.; Garfield Legion / Grange Hall, 2 to 6 p.m.; LaCrosse, 110 N. Main, 8 a.m. to noon; Tekoa City Hall, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.; Oakesdale Baptist Church, 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.; Endicott City Hall, 6 to 7:30 p.m. Friday, April 27: Colton-Uniontown, Uniontown Community Building, 8 a...
As far back as James Anglum can remember, he knew he wanted to work in the food service industry. His parents started a catering business in Oak Harbor when he was seven years old. They enjoyed it so much they also opened a restaurant. “I come from five generations of butchers, and I am the first in five generations to not be a butcher,” James said. James decided to go to the Art Institute of Seattle’s School of Culinary Arts. He said he learned the methods of cooking different foods. He has baked, made pastries and cooked a variety of dishes....
Across the country, March 30 has become known as a day we pay tribute to physicians. On behalf of the Whitman Hospital and Medical Center staff, I would like to express appreciation of our physicians and their continuing commitment to excellent care. Physicians often provide care at a personal sacrifice of time with their families. They provide 24/7 coverage for the hospital in key areas including primary care, orthopedics, radiology and general surgery. These physicians are available to come into the hospital at a moment’s notice at all h...
Rosalia Volunteers are now working on the Rosalia float which will be in the Lilac Parade in Spokane May 19. Rosalia royalty and the float committee plan a community barbecue Friday May 18 to preview the float which will represent the Rosalia-Thornton-Malden area. It will begin at 7 p.m next to the former building supply builiding. Anyone interested in helping build the float can contact Angela Hackney. Rosalia royalty includes Queen Maddy St. John and Princesses Brittany Terrell, Haley...
Dusty Don and Kay Stinson, Branson, Mo., parents of Jen Claassen, visited Wes, Jen, Bo and Lauren from March 21-29. While they were here, they all celebrated Bo’s 15th birthday and Wes’s 40th. This past weekend, Bo and Lauren were in Seattle with the Onecho Bible Church Youth Group at the “Acquire the Fire” Christian youth conference. Connie Nafziger Hopkins, her children and grandchildren, Spokane; Viv Nafziger, Colfax, and Breanna Bowlin, daughter of Rob and Audrey Nafziger Bowlin, Findlay, Ohio, were in the Dusty area recently to visit a...
Ce’Nedra Thomas was named Miss Tekoa at the March 24 program at the Empire Theatre. Kayler Dub is the first princess and also won the Miss Congeniality award with Princesses Darby Ratz and Nicole Zimmerman rounding out the 2012 court. Ray Bernard hosted the evening entitled “Bayou Beauties”. Special guests were Ashley Stabl and Jonathan Smith who performed an East Coast swing routine. The court’s first official duty will be riding in the Lilac and Armed Forces Torchlight parade in Spokane May 19....
Boy born to Gyllings Micah William Gylling was born March 9 to Matt and Amanda Gylling of Tacoma. Weighing seven pounds, two ounces at birth, he is their first child. Maternal grandparents are Mike and Cheryl Karr of Redmond and great-grandmother is Lois Karr of Woodenville. Paternal grandparents are Paul and Debbie Gylling of Colfax and great-grandparents are Delores Lindhag, Archie and Alice Allenbach of Colfax and Judy Gylling of Walla Walla. Hall boy born Colt Jackson Hall was born Feb. 29 at Deaconess Hospital in Spokane at eight pounds...
Author and former Davenport coach, Jim Stinson postponed his Colfax stop and will now speak about his new book, “Remembering the B” on Monday, April 2, at 6:30 p.m. in the Colfax Library. Books will be available for purchase and signing. All branches of Whitman County Library will close Sunday, April 8, for Easter. Friends of Whitman County Library will sponsor a free movie day at the Colfax Branch Friday, April 6, at 1 p.m. A newly released PG-rated film will be shown. A new session of Flex and Flow Yoga will begin at the Colfax Library Tue...
Celia Boland of Moscow will bring her art quilts to the April 5 Meet the Artist session at Whitman County Library in Colfax at 7 p.m. Celia does a variety of textile arts, from landscape and crazy quilts to her own take on traditional quilt patterns. Celia is currently one of a three-generation show at Cosgrove’s Insurance Agency in Moscow. Her mother, Peggy Robbinson, a painter, and daughter Adrienne, a photographer, are also featured. Boland grew up in southern Idaho in a creative family. Her mother and other family members “made art” in thei...
8 years ago April 1, 1887 Young ladies of Colfax have organized a baseball club and were out for practice Wednesday afternoon. They will appear in full uniform soon and after sufficient practice will challenge their brothers, cousins and sweethearts to a match game. Deputy Sheriff Petty made his first haul, the culprit being J. Von Aspen, who, during the night of March 29, entered Geo. H. McGuire’s stable near Steptoe and laid a thief’s hands upon two work horses and a saddle, riding the animals away. He made his way into Garfield cou...
Judy Eagen (right) of Palouse receives a Kindle Fire from Palouse Library manager Bev Pearce as a result of her participation in a Whitman County Library Community survey. The Friends of WCL sponsored the prize drawing as an incentive for community members of all ages to take part in the three-page survey conducted by Washington State University Marketing Students in conjunction with a Federal Library Services and Technology grant studying the needs of the largest growing population of library users, those over the age of 50. Results of the...
Week of April 2 - 6 No School, Spring Break COUNCIL ON AGING SENIOR PROGRAM MENUS Week of April 2 - 6 Colfax-Plymouth Congregational Church: Wednesday —Sloppy Joe on a bun, baked beans, three bean salad, tropical fruit, birthday dessert, milk, coffee or tea. Rosalia-Methodist Church: Tuesday — Baked ham w/fruit sauce, scalloped potatoes, hot veggie medley, fruited jell-o w/topping, hot dinner roll, milk, coffee or tea. Palouse-Palouse Federated Church: Wednesday —Sloppy Joe on a bun, baked beans, three bean salad, tropical fruit, birth...
